25+ Paleolithic Ice Age Hunters PNG. Upper paleolithic hunters became aware that they were causing the extinction of large animals and stopped hunting them before it was too late. First part of the stone age beginning about 750,000 to 500,000 years bc and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years bc.
Upper palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern eurasians.
During the paleolithic period the man was a hunter and food gatherer. The age and context of the kent's cavern 4 maxilla and the earliest homo sapiens specimens in europe. The three periods follow the evolution of men from apes. Food could include meat from animals, fish, fruit, wild some believe that division of labor was flexible between men and women while others believe that men were hunters and women were gatherers.