Characterized by the use of primitive tools, it's the earliest known period of human culture
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Early Stone Age Tools | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins ...  The oldest stone tools, known as the Oldowan toolkit, consist of at least: ... It and the Acheulean toolkit were made for an immense period of time  ending in...
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Early Human Evolution: Early Human Culture  Tool Making. Some chimpanzee communities are known to use stone and wood as hammers to crack nuts and as crude ineffective weapons in hunting small...
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Paleolithic Period | anthropology | Britannica.com  Jun 22, 2016 ... Paleolithic Period, also spelled Palaeolithic Period, also called Old Stone Age, ... characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. ... Lake Turkana discovered primitive stone tools embedded in rocks dating to 3.3 ... with the remains of what may have been some of the earliest human ancestors.
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Paleolithic - Wikipedia  The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic; pronunciation: /pelilk, p-, -lio-/) Age, Era or Period is a prehistoric period of human history distinguished by the development of the most primitive stone tools discovered (Grahame Clark's Modes I and II) ... It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools, probably by Homo...
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The Stone Age - World History International  The Stone Age is usually divided into three separate periods--Paleolithic Period, ... of early human culture between the first appearance of man as a tool-using ... to the advances and retreats of ice sheets (known as Gnz, Mindel, Riss, and Wrm ... pebble tools of primitive type continued in use throughout Paleolithic times.
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Bronze Age - Wikipedia  The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early ... The Bronze Age was a time of extensive use of metals and of developing .... In the 14th century BC, the Hittite Kingdom was at its height, encompassing ... After the Bronze Age collapse, their political influence was confined to a...
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Minoan civilization - Wikipedia  The Minoan civilization was an Aegean Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete ... The Minoan period saw significant contacts between Crete, the Aegean and the ... There is recent stone tool evidence that hominins may have reached the island of Crete as early as 530,000 years ago; however, the evidence...
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History of technology - Wikipedia  The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques and is similar to other sides of the history of humanity. Technology can refer to methods ranging from as simple as language and stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s. ... White differentiates between five stages of human development: In the first,...
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The Neolithic Revolution | Howell World History  They call the long period from at least 2 million B.C. to about 10000 B.C. the Old Stone Age, ... This food kept the band alive when game animals were scarce. ... These early farmers were the first humans to domesticate plants and ... Evidence shows that people began to farm in different parts of the world at different times,...
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ANTHROPOLOGY  Music, a universal feature of contemporary human cultures, has deep pre- ... This chapter's time span extends from 300,000 years ago to just a few ..... 90,000 years ago ... Some evidence of modern tool-making is dated to 300,000 years ago. ... An important site of early modern humans, Blombos Cave in South Africa, dated.
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Bronze Age - Wikipedia  The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early ..... The Middle Kingdom of Egypt lasted from 2055 to 1650 BC. .... Dating is still currently broad (3500500 BC). ..... The period is divided into three phases: Early Bronze Age (20001500 BC), Middle Bronze Age (15001200 BC),...
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American Indian Culture of the Plains | Before contact | Worlds ...  In practice, Plains American Indians hunted large animals early as the 12,000 BCE. ... Clovis points, sharp points carved out of stone, have been now discovered all ... of African elephants, corroborating the idea that Native Americans used these ... They made bull boats by stretching bison skin over a wooden frame to trade...
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Musical Origins and the Stone Age Evolution of ... - Acoustics Today  Both pictorial evidence and actual instruments are known from these early ... bone and ivory flutes go back into pre-history, specifically to a period between the Middle ... The simplest flute is not made but found: a hollow tube making sound by blowing across one of ... is the case with some of the oldest instruments known.
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The Sumerians. - Ancient-Wisdom  The Sumerians: Culture and Historical Perspective. ... wrote that cranial deformation features were also seen of skulls of Kish; Ur of ... 3,000 - 2,500 BC. ... The first written documents, from around 3,500 BC, are receipts and lists of items. .... had a sophisticated system of agriculture, in which irrigation was used to grow cereal...
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Early Hominin Evolution: Discovery of Early Hominids  The immediate ancestors of humans were members of the genus ... from the same ape ancestors in Africa but that both genera are habitually bipedal ... Orrorin lived about 6 million years ago, while Ardipithecus remains have ... Despite its relatively small brain, he concluded that this species was ... teeth were relatively short.
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Stone Age - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Jul 18, 2014 ... Despite the critics, this system is still largely used today and, although it ... Tools and weapons during the Stone Age were not made exclusively...
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Stone Age - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Jul 18, 2014 ... Tools and weapons during the Stone Age were not made exclusively ... Paleolithic or Old Stone Age: from the first production of stone artefacts, ... the Mesolithic begins at the end of a period known in geology as the Younger...
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Iron Age - Wikipedia  The Iron Age is an archaeological era, referring to a period of time in the prehistory and ..... Iron production quickly followed in the 2nd century BC, and iron implements came to be used by farmers by the 1st century in southern Korea.
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Choukoutien - Archaeology Wordsmith  The find also yielded extinct animals; flake, core, and chopping tools of ... China, with numerous human fossils, including ' Peking man', found in cave ... New investigations have found more skulls and parts, and a pollen sequence is known. ... such as Choukoutien, in the Clactonian in England, and at the earliest levels of...
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The History of Science and Technology - Scribd  OVERVIEW: Philosophy, a precursor to science 51 The Hellenistic world and the .... used to work the other tools could be thought of as the rst machine tool. ...... England are made about this time.000 bce tool.000. cleavers. and pestles. ...... or charcoal res. but zinc was not discovered until the 13th century in India and not...
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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | PALEO-INDIANS  Between 30,000 and 11,000 years ago, small, highly mobile groups of ... There is little reason to believe that Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers had any significant ... Hunting weapons were probably constructed from interchangeable parts that ... that a fluted spear or "dart" point (Folsom) was found by archeologists among the...