stone age

     

↑ before Homo (Pliocene)

Trivia about stone age

  • Characterized by the use of primitive tools, it's the earliest known period of human culture
  • This "Age" is divided into the Paleolithic, the Mesolithic, & the Neolithic
  • The Paleolithic period is part of this
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an image of a cave painting on a screen.) Temperature and moisture within the Lascaux cave preserved even the pigments from 15,000 B.C. in this age
  • The Natufian culture of ancient Palestine dates to circa 9000 B.C.--the Mesolithic or Middle this age