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The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic ( / ˌpeɪlioʊˈlɪθɪk, ˌpæli -/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee- ), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old', and λίθος (líthos) 'stone'), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of huma...
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The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos...
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The Palaeolithic (or Paleolithic) [1] was a period of...
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Paleolithic Period, ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. The popular Paleo diet, or Stone Age diet, is based on foods humans presumably would have consumed during the Paleolithic Period. ( See also Stone Age .)
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- What is the Paleolithic Period?The Paleolithic Period is an ancient cultural stage of human technological development, characterized by the creation and use of rudimentary chippe...
- When did the Paleolithic Period begin?The onset of the Paleolithic Period has traditionally coincided with the first evidence of tool construction and use by Homo some 2.58 million year...
- When did the Paleolithic Period end?The Paleolithic Period ended when the Neolithic Period began. However, this transition point is much debated, as different parts of the world achie...
- Did more than one species achieve a Paleolithic level of development?At least three species within the genus Homo achieved a Paleolithic level of development. There is a great deal of evidence that the species H. ere...
El Paleolítico (del griego παλαιός, palaiós: ‘antiguo’, y λίθος, lithos: ‘piedra’) es el periodo más largo de la existencia del ser humano (de hecho abarca un 99 % de la misma) y se extiende desde hace unos 2,59 millones de años (en África) [1] hasta hace unos 12 000 años. [2]
Sep 29, 2017 · The Palaeolithic ('Old Stone Age ') makes up the earliest chunk of the Stone Age – the large swathe of time during which hominins used stone to make tools – and ranges from the first known tool use roughly 2,6 million years ago to the end of the last Ice Age c. 12,000 years ago, with part of its stone tool culture continuing up until c. 10,000 y...
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Upper Paleolithic. Upper Paleolithic. Löwenmensch, a prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel, c. 40,000–35,000 years old. Period. Stone Age. Dates. 50,000 to 12,000 BP. Preceded by. Middle Paleolithic.
The Lower Paleolithic (or Lower Palaeolithic) is the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. It spans the time from around 3.3 million years ago when the first evidence for stone tool production and use by hominins appears in the current archaeological record, [1] until around 300,000 years ago, spanning the Oldowan ("mode 1 ...
