Middle Stone Age
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The Middle Stone Age was a period of African prehistory between the Early Stone Age and the Later Stone Age. It is generally considered to have begun around 280,000 years ago and ended around 50–25,00
Middle Stone Age tool from Blombos Cave
The Awash Valley
2009 excavations at the Diepkloof Rock Shelter
Homo erectus skull, Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor
Lower Paleolithic
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The Lower Paleolithic 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
Middle Stone Age
…The Middle Stone Age (or MSA) was a period of African prehistory between the Early Stone Age and the Later Stone Age. It is generally considered to have begun around 280,000 years ago and ended around 50–25,000 years ago. The beginnings of…
Four views of an Acheulean handaxe
Reconstruction of a female Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis likely evolved from Homo ergaster (or African H. erectus) following an intense population bottleneck that occurred between 930,000 and 813,000 years ago.