Paleolithic. The term "Paleolithic" was coined by archaeologist John Lubbock in 1865.[6] It derives from Greek: παλαιός, palaios, "old"; and λίθος, lithos, "stone", literally meaning "old age of the stone" or "Old Stone Age.
" Human evolution[edit] Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. Paleogeography and climate[edit]
Middle Paleolithic. Upper Paleolithic. Mesolithic. Neolithic. Stone Age. Modern Awash River, Ethiopia, descendant of the Palaeo-Awash, source of the sediments in which the oldest Stone Age tools have been found The Stone Age is the first of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: Historical significance[edit] The Stone Age is nearly contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo, the only exception possibly being at the very beginning, when species prior to Homo may have manufactured tools.
