Initial Upper Paleolithic

Modern humans of the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) wave are suggested to have expanded from a population hub through a star-like expansion pattern (>45kya), and are linked to "East-Eurasian" lineages, broadly ancestral to modern populations in Eastern Eurasia and Oceania, notably East Asian peoples, Aboriginal Australians, and Papuans.

[2][3][4][5] Initial Upper Paleolithic sites are considered as forming the earliest culture of modern humans in Europe.

[8] They ended in Bacho Kiro cave and Oase, but this wave of colonization did not go as far as Western Europe and apparently was not successful.

[16] The Initial Upper Paleolithic corresponds to the spread of a particular techno-complex in Eurasia,[6] to which possibly relates the European Châtelperronian.

[6] In effect Aurignacian (42,000-28,000 BP) layers generally postdate late Mousterian and Initial Upper Paleolithic assemblages.

Main Initial Upper Paleolithic human remains ( ) and stone assemblage sites ( ). [ 1 ]
Repetitive expansions into Eurasia from a population Hub OoA.
Forensic facial reconstruction of Oase 2