Editing Paleolithic (section)

=== Other inventions ===
During the [[Upper Paleolithic]], further inventions were made, such as the [[net (device)|net]] ({{c.|22,000}} or {{c.|29,000|lk=no}}&nbsp;BP)<ref name=MarloweFW22/> [[bolas]],<ref>J. Chavaillon, D. Lavallée, « Bola », in ''Dictionnaire de la Préhistoire'', PUF, 1988.</ref> the [[spear thrower]] ({{c.|30,000|lk=no}}&nbsp;BP), the bow and arrow ({{c.|25,000|lk=no}} or {{c.|30,000|lk=no}}&nbsp;BP)<ref name="McClellan"/> and the oldest example of ceramic art, the [[Venus of Dolní Věstonice]] ({{c.|29,000|25,000|lk=no}}&nbsp;BP).<ref name="McClellan"/> [[Kilu Cave]] at [[Buka Island|Buku island]], [[Solomon Islands (archipelago)|Solomon Islands]], demonstrates navigation of some 60&nbsp;km of open ocean at 30,000 BCcal.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wickler |first=Stephen |title=Prehistoric Melanesian Exchange and Interaction: Recent Evidence from the Northern Solomon Islands. |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/16987/AP-v29n2-135-154.pdf |journal=Asian Perspectives |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=135–154}}</ref>

Early dogs were domesticated sometime between 30,000 and 14,000&nbsp;BP, presumably to aid in hunting.<ref name="TheBookofGeneralIgnorance">[[John Lloyd (producer)|Lloyd, J]] & [[John Mitchinson (researcher)|Mitchinson, J]]: "[[The Book of General Ignorance]]". Faber & Faber, 2006.</ref> However, the earliest instances of successful domestication of dogs may be much more ancient than this. Evidence from [[canidae|canine]] [[DNA]] collected by Robert K. Wayne suggests that dogs may have been first domesticated in the late Middle Paleolithic around 100,000&nbsp;BP or perhaps even earlier.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1997/151-26/15126-11.pdf |title=Stalking the ancient dog |work=Science news |first=Christine |last=Mellot |access-date=3 January 2008}}</ref>

Archaeological evidence from the [[Dordogne]] region of France demonstrates that members of the European early [[Upper Paleolithic]] culture known as the [[Aurignacian]] used calendars ({{c.|30,000}}&nbsp;BP). This was a lunar calendar that was used to document the phases of the moon. Genuine solar calendars did not appear until the Neolithic.<ref name="Felipe Fernandez Armesto 2003 400"/> Upper Paleolithic cultures were probably able to time the migration of game animals such as wild horses and deer.<ref name="ReferenceA-2">[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555928_4/Stone_Age.html "Stone Age," Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101033259/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555928_4/Stone_Age.html |date=2009-11-01 }} Contributed by Kathy Schick, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. and Nicholas Toth, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.</ref> This ability allowed humans to become efficient hunters and to exploit a wide variety of game animals.<ref name="ReferenceA-2"/> Recent research indicates that the Neanderthals timed their hunts and the migrations of game animals long before the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic.<ref name=Parson2006/>