Paleolithic Age

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Paleolithic Age - second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BCPalaeolithic, PaleolithicStone Age - (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implementsLower Paleolithic - the oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years agoMiddle Paleolithic - the time period of Neanderthal man; ended about 35,000 years BCUpper Paleolithic - the time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed; ended about 10,000 years BC