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The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone ... is not to be identified with "Old Stone Age", ... ) for use as cutting tools and weapons, ...
Stone tools found from 2011 to 2014 at the Lomekwi archeology site near Lake Turkana in Kenya, are dated to be 3.3 million years old, and predate the genus Homo by about one million years. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The oldest known Homo fossil is about 2.4–2.3 million years old compared to the 3.3 million year old stone tools. [ 7 ]
The Schöningen spears are a set of ten Palaeolithic wooden weapons that were excavated between 1994 and 1999 from the 'Spear Horizon' in the open-cast lignite mine in Schöningen, Helmstedt district, Germany. The spears are among the oldest hunting weapons discovered and were found together with animal bones and stone and bone tools. Being ...
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 ...
This is a list of notable types of weapons which saw use in warfare, and more broadly in combat, prior to the advent of the early modern period, i.e., approximately prior to the start of the 16th century.
Prehistoric warfare refers to war that occurred between societies without recorded history.. The existence—and the definition—of war in humanity's hypothetical state of nature has been a controversial topic in the history of ideas at least since Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan (1651) argued a "war of all against all", a view directly challenged by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a Discourse on ...
Stone tools and cut marks on bone Controversial [19] Bokol Dora 1 [20] (BD 1) 2.6 Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia East Africa Stone tools Gona [21] 2.6 Ethiopia East Africa Stone tools and cut marks on bone Perdikkas [22] [23] 3.0–2.5 Perdikkas, Greece Eastern Europe ”Butchered” mammoth bones, stone tools Controversial Bouri Hatayae layer [24] 2.5 ...
Lower Paleolithic – earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. It spans the time from around 2.5 million years ago when the first evidence of craft and use of stone tools by hominins appears in the current archaeological record, until around 300,000 years ago, spanning the Oldowan ("mode 1") and Acheulean ("mode 2") lithic ...