Stone Age

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STONE AGE
The Stone Age is a broad
prehistoric period during which stone was
widely used to make implements with a
sharp edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years,
and ended between 6000 BCE and 2000
BCE with the advent of metal working.
The concept of Stone

Age
The terms "Stone Age", "Bronze Age",
and "Iron Age" were never meant to suggest that
advancement and time periods in prehistory are only
measured by the type of tool material, rather than,
for example, social organization, food sources
exploited, adaptation to climate, adoption of
agriculture, cooking, settlement and religion. Like
pottery, the typology of the stone tools combined
with the relative sequence of the types in various
regions provide a chronological framework for the
evolution of man and society.
The time after the Stone Age is

the Bronze age, named after the metal
bronze. The Stone Age ended when people
discovered the art of smelting (making
metals). The first metal was copper, followed
by bronze. People probably began using
bronze instead of just stone in the middle
east sometime between 3000 and 2000 BC.
STONE AGE TOO
The three stage

system
The Three-stage System was proposed in
1929 by Astley John Hilary Goodwin, a professional
archaeologist, and Clarence van Riet Lowe By then,
the dates of the Early Stone Age, or Paleolithic , and
Late Stone Age, or Neolithic, were fairly solid and
were regarded by Goodwin as absolute. He therefore
proposed a relative chronology of periods with
floating dates, to be called the Earlier and Later Stone
Age. The Middle Stone Age would not change its
name, but it would not mean Mesolithic.
The stone age is divided

by archeologists into three;
1.Paleolithic (Old stone)
2.Mesolithic (Middle stone)
3.Neolithic (New stone)
PALEOLTHIC AGE
The cultural period of the Stone
Age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years
ago, marked by the earliest use of tools made
of chipped stone. The Paleolithic Period
ended at different times in different parts of
the world, generally around 10,000 years ago
in Europe and the Middle East. Also called
Old Stone Age.
Paleolithic humans made

tools of stone, bone, and wood.
Lower Paleolithic humans used a variety of stone
tools, including Hand axes and choppers.
Fire was used by the Lower
Paleolithic hominid as early as 300,000 or 1.5
million years ago and possibly even earlier by the
early Lower Paleolithic.
Throughout the Paleolithic,

humans generally lived as nomadic huntergathers. Hunter gatherer societies tended to be
very small and egalitarian, though huntergatherer societies with abundant resources or
advanced food-storage techniques sometimes
developed sedentary lifestyles with complex
social structures such as chiefdoms, and social
satisfaction. Long-distance contacts may have
been established, as in the case of Indigenous
Australian highways."
Stone Age rituals and beliefs
MESOLITHIC
The "Mesolithic," or "Middle Stone
Age" (from the Greek "mesos," "middle,"
and "lithos," "stone") was a period in the
development of human technology between
the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of
the Stone Age.
The Mesolithic is characterized

in most areas by small composite flint
tools microliths and micro burins.
Fishing tackle, stone adzes and wooden
objects.
Regions that experienced
greater environmental effects as the last
ice age ended have a much more evident
Mesolithic era, lasting millennia.
Mesolithic microliths
NEOLITHIC AGE
"Neolithic" means "New Stone
Age." Unlike the Paleolithic , when
more than one human species existed,
only one human species reached the
Neolithic Homo floresiensis may have
survived right up to the very dawn of the
Neolithic, about 12,200 years ago.
This was a period of primitive

technological and social development. It
began about 10,200 BC in some parts of
the Middle East, and later in other parts of
the world and ending between 4,500 and
2,000 BC. The Neolithic is a progression of
behavioral and cultural characteristics and
changes, including the use of wild and
domestic crops and of domesticated animals.
Pottery was invented during

the Neolithic Stone Age. Some
people also believe the art of
writing began in the Neolithic Stone
Age.
Neolithic artifacts
CONCLUSION
The term Bronze Age refers to a
period in human cultural development. The
invention of writing coincides with the early
beginnings of the Bronze Age. Soon after the
appearance of writing, people started creating
written accounts of events and "keeping book"
of administrative matters. The Bronze Age
forms part of the three-age system for
prehistoric societies.

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MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY

The concept of Stone

The time after the Stone Age is

STONE AGE TOO

The three stage

The stone age is divided

Paleolithic humans made

Throughout the Paleolithic,

Stone Age rituals and beliefs

The Mesolithic is characterized

This was a period of primitive

Pottery was invented during

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