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Stone Age

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.

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related to External links · 32
Stone Age → AerobiologicalEngineering, Africanist Archaeologists, April, Archived, Association, August, Boston, Commonwealth, February, Giusepi, History World InternationalKowalski, Houghton Mifflin, Human Timeline, Interactive, Kowalski, March, Moorehead, National Museum, Natural History, North America Vol
related to Shelter and habitat · 26
Stone Age → An, Around, BC, Chernihiv, Concerns, Czech Republic, Dniepr, Dolní Věstonice, East Africa, East-Central Europe, Examples, France, Grotte, Homo, Lazaret, Magdalenian, Many, Moravia, Nice, Plateau Parain
related to Food and drink · 21
Stone Age → An, Asia, Australia, Europe, Food, Holocene, Israel, It, Kebara Cave, Large, Megafauna, Moreover, Mousterian, Near, North America, Palaeolithic, The, They, This, Upper Paleolithic
related to Historical significance · 16
Stone Age → According, Africa, Asia, China, East African Rift System, Ethiopia, Homo, Levant, Nile, North Africa, Pan, South Africa, Starting, The, The Stone Age, This
related to Modern popular culture · 16
Stone Age → Auel, Cavemen, Chuck Rock, Earth's Children, For, Human, Jean, One Million Years, Other, Paleolithic, See, The, The Flintstones, Walking, While, Young Earth
related to Three-stage system · 16
Stone Age → Africa, African, Clark, Consequently, Desmond Clark, In, North Africa, Saharan Africa, South African, Stone Ages, There, They, Three-age, Three-Age System, Three-stage, Three-stage System
related to Problem of the transitions · 14
Stone Age → A/B, Africa, African, Europe, If, If Period, In, Louis Leakey, More, Neolithic, Paleolithic, Period, The, The Stone Age
related to End of the Stone Age · 12
Stone Age → BC, Bronze Age, Chalcolithic, Copper Age, Eneolithic, Eurasia, Innovation, Iron Age, North Africa, The, The Bronze Age, The Chalcolithic
related to Chronology · 11
Stone Age → Danish, Epipaleolithic, Holocene, In, Jens Jacob Worsaae, Mesolithic, Pleistocene, Pliocene, The, The Paleolithic, Three-age Stone Age
related to Three-age chronology · 11
Stone Age → BC, Epipaleolithic, Greek, Homo, It, John Lubbock, Mesolithic, Neolithisation, Palaeolithic, Pleistocene, The Paleolithic

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stone tools age mya africa paleolithic period neolithic acheulean erectus found years use europe used bronze bc homo evidence mode

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Stone AgeLocationGlobal1.00infobox
Stone Ageis afirst period in the three-age system frequently used in archaeology to divide the timeline of human technological prehistory0.90text
some parts of the Indiesinstance ofIt may not always be the best in relation to regions0.80text
Oceaniainstance ofIt may not always be the best in relation to regions0.80text
where farmers or hunter-gatherers used stone for tools until European colonisation began.Archaeologists of the late 19thinstance ofIt may not always be the best in relation to regions0.80text
early 20th centuries CEinstance ofIt may not always be the best in relation to regions0.80text
who adapted the three-age system to their ideasinstance ofIt may not always be the best in relation to regions0.80text
hoped to combine cultural anthropologyinstance ofIt may not always be the best in relation to regions0.80text
archaeology in such a way that a specific contemporaneous tribe could be used to illustrate the way of lifeinstance ofIt may not always be the best in relation to regions0.80text
beliefs of the people exercising a particular Stone-Age technologyinstance ofIt may not always be the best in relation to regions0.80text
Homo habilisinstance ofwith the first documented use of stone tools by hominins0.80text
to the end of the Pleistocene around 10instance ofwith the first documented use of stone tools by hominins0.80text

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