Stone Age
Videos
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and
Ġgantija temples in Gozo, Malta, c. 3600–2500 BC, some of the world's oldest free-standing structures
A variety of stone tools
Stone Age hand axe engraved with human face found from Kiuruvesi, Finland
A Mode 1, or Oldowan, stone tool from the western Sahara
Paleolithic
Videos
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.