Old Stone Age
Earliest tool-making period
Old Stone Age is another name for the Paleolithic period, the earliest and longest phase of human prehistory, when people made tools by chipping stone rather than grinding or polishing it.
The era spans roughly 2.5 million years, ending around 10,000 BCE with the advent of agriculture.
Archaeologists discovered Old Stone Age hand axes at the site.
- early humansAncient ancestral primates
- cave dwellersThose residing in caverns
- rock sheltersNatural stone overhangs providing cover
- Homo erectusExtinct bipedal human ancestor
- LascauxPaleolithic painted cavern
glacial period · Australopithecus · Neanderthals · Cro-Magnons · Anthropocene · hand axes · cave paintings · hunter-gatherers · Altamira · bone tools · big game hunting · mammoth · ochre · Homo sapiens · Mesolithic · Homo sapiens · Mesolithic
Old Stone AgeIndustrial Age
Period of factory-based manufacturing
Digital Age · Iron Age · modern era · Bronze Age · Neolithic
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