Paleolithic
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The Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools. It represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology, ext
Hunting a Glyptodon. Painting by Heinrich Harder c. 1920.
The oldest known figurative painting is a depiction of a bull that was discovered in the Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave in Indonesia. It was painted 40,000–52,000 years ago or earlier.
A skull of early Homo neanderthalensis, Miguelón from the Lower Paleolithic dated to 430,000 BP.
Many giant mammals such as woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and cave lions inhabited the mammoth steppe during the Pleistocene.
Prehistory
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Prehistory, sometimes referred to as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded
Engraved images of animals on antler
Lion-Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, Aurignacian culture, c. 41,000 BP
Bone flute from Geißenklösterle. Aurignacian culture, 43,000–35,000 BC
Massive stone pillars at Göbekli Tepe, in southeast Turkey, erected for ritual use by early Neolithic people 11,000 years ago