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  2. Three-age system - Wikipedia

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    Jōmon pottery, Japanese Stone Age Trundholm sun chariot, Nordic Bronze Age Iron Age house keys Cave of Letters, Nahal Hever Canyon, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, [1] [2] although the concept may ...

  3. List of archaeological periods - Wikipedia

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    The three-age system has been used in many areas, referring to the prehistorical and historical periods identified by tool manufacture and use, of Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since these ages are distinguished by the development of technology, it is natural that the dates to which these refer vary in different parts of the ...

  4. Stone Age - Wikipedia

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    The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use. The Stone Age is the first period in the three-age system frequently used in archaeology to divide the timeline of human technological prehistory (especially in Europe and western Asia) into functional periods, with the next two being the Bronze Age and the Iron Age ...

  5. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East: c. five thousand years ago). Paleolithic – the earliest period of the Stone Age Lower Paleolithic – time of archaic human species, predates Homo sapiens

  6. Prehistory - Wikipedia

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    The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory into three consecutive time periods, named for their predominant tool-making technologies: Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. [13] In some areas, there is also a transition period between Stone Age and Bronze Age, the Chalcolithic or Copper Age. [14]

  7. List of archaeological periods (Levant) - Wikipedia

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    The following is a refined list of Levantive archeological periods, expanded from the basic three-age system with finer subdivisions and ... Stone Age (2,000,000 BP ...

  8. Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (c. 3.3 million – c. 11,700 years ago) (/ ˌ p eɪ l i oʊ ˈ l ɪ θ ɪ k, ˌ p æ l i-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old' and λίθος (líthos) 'stone'), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost ...

  9. Timeline of prehistory - Wikipedia

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    Late Stone Age begins in Africa. c. 50 kya: Denisova hominin lives in the Altai Mountains, [31] with oldest estimated to be c. 76 kya. [32] 45 kya: The earliest known representational art: a painting of three Celebes warty pigs in Leang Tedongnge cave, Sulawesi. [33]