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Paleolithic

(Redirected from Palaeolithic)

(PleistocenePaleolithic10th millennium BC9th millennium BCother millennia)

This time period is part of the
Pleistocene epoch.
Holocene
Neolithic
Mesolithic or Epipaleolithic
Pleistocene
Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic
Middle Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic – lit. old stone from the Greek paleos=old and lithos=stone – period is the oldest part of the stone age, dating from the first use of stone tools by hominids (maybe 2,000,000 years ago) to the end of the Pleistocene epoch. Subdivisions of the Paleolithic include the

The Paleolithic is followed by the Mesolithic or Epipaleolithic.

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