Japanese Paleolithic are a technology associated in the rest of the world with the beginning of the Neolithic around 10,000 BC. It is not known why such tools were created so early in Japan. Because of this originality, the Japanese Paleolithic period in Japan does not exactly match the traditional definition of Paleolithic based on stone technology (chipped stone tools). Japanese Paleolithic tool implements thus display Mesolithic and Neolithic traits as early as 30,000 BC. The Paleolithic populations of Japan, as well as the later Jōmon populations, appear to relate to an ancient Paleo-Asian group which occupied large parts of Asia before
Paleolithic dog but morphologically similar fossil skulls that had been found across Europe and concluded that the earlier specimens were "Palaeolithic dogs", which were morphologically and genetically distinct from Pleistocene wolves that lived in Europe at that time. The Paleolithic dog was smaller than the Pleistocene wolf "(Canis c.f. lupus)" and the extant gray wolf ("Canis lupus"), with a skull size that indicated a dog similar in size to the modern large dog breeds. The Paleolithic dog had a mean body mass of 36–37 kg compared to Pleistocene wolf 42–44 kg and recent European wolf 41–42 kg. The earliest sign of domestication