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One of the most famous Stone Age sculptures that still remain today and used as a desktop background and one of the 7 wonders of the worlds Introduction: The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with a sharp edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4500 BC and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking.[1] Stone Age artifacts include tools used by humans and by their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Bone tools were used during this period as well, but are more rarely preserved in the archaeological record. The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use.
Mammoth: An elephant like beast found and extinct during the Stone Age

During the Stone Age various methods of how to make a fire were discovered. These methods are still used today and fire was a revolutionary discovery in human history.
Impact of Stone Age
The Stone Age shaped, developed and formed our modern day form of living. There are numerous facts and events that have occurred throughout time that are evidence of this.
The Stone Age began as far back as three million years ago in some places. In 2010, fossilized animal bones bearing marks from stone tools were found in the Lower Awash Valley in Ethiopia. Discovered by an international team led by Shannon McPherron, at 3.4 million years old they are the oldest evidence of stone tool use ever found anywhere in the world This was when neanderthals were roaming the world using primitive weapons to hunt animals as well as searching for other sources of food. Since that time the ways of living and even the shape of man have evolved greatly into their modern form.

Hunter Gatherer Society
The men of those times were hunter-gatherers and used, in some cases only one tool for numerous jobs. Today we have many varieties

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