1. 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.
2. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4500 BC and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking.
3. Stone Age artifacts include tools used by humans and by their predecessor species in the genus Home, as well as the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus.
4. Bone tools were used during this period as well, but are more rarely preserved in the archaeological record.
5. The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use.
6. The Stone Age is the first to the three-age systems of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods : The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, and The Iron Age.
7. The Stone Age is nearly contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo, the only exception possibly being at the very beginning, when species prior to Homo may have manufactured tools.
8. According to the age and location of the current evidence, the cradle of the genius is the East African Rift System, especially toward the north in Ethiopia, where is t bordered by grassland.
9. The closest relative among the other living Primates, the genus Pan, requests a branch that continued on in the deep forest, where the primates evolved.
10. The rift served as a conduit for movement into south Africa and also north down the Nile into North Africa and through the continuation of the rift in the Levant to the vast gassland of Asia.
2. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4500 BC and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking.
3. Stone Age artifacts include tools used by humans and by their predecessor species in the genus Home, as well as the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus.
4. Bone tools were used during this period as well, but are more rarely preserved in the archaeological record.
5. The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use.
6. The Stone Age is the first to the three-age systems of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods : The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, and The Iron Age.
7. The Stone Age is nearly contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo, the only exception possibly being at the very beginning, when species prior to Homo may have manufactured tools.
8. According to the age and location of the current evidence, the cradle of the genius is the East African Rift System, especially toward the north in Ethiopia, where is t bordered by grassland.
9. The closest relative among the other living Primates, the genus Pan, requests a branch that continued on in the deep forest, where the primates evolved.
10. The rift served as a conduit for movement into south Africa and also north down the Nile into North Africa and through the continuation of the rift in the Levant to the vast gassland of Asia.