The Stone Age
In the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.), early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals.
When did Paleolithic age start and end?
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age: from the first production of stone artefacts, about 2.5 million years ago, to the end of the last Ice Age, about 9,600 BCE. This is the longest Stone Age period.
Where did the Paleolithic begin?
Lower- or Early Palaeolithic
So far traced back to around a staggering 2,6 million years ago in Africa is when some early humans first began making simple stone tools.
