The Early Stone Age

The New Stone Age

Stone Age
Palaeolithic, Mezolithic, Neolithic

The Early Stone Age (Palaeolithic) is the era where the human communities lived in caves or in open spaces in tents made from animal hide.

Except for gathering wild fruits, the source of nutrition was hunting, too, so that the manufacturing of stone and bone tools for a successful hunting started very early.

At first these tools were stone pebbles with scarcely visible signs of lopping off that the erect man (Homo erectus) made use of, while the Neanderthal man (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) produced a significantly higher quality and more appropriate tools used for hunting. The production of stoneware was brought almost to perfection by the predecessor of the present-day man, called Homo sapiens sapiens – a very rational, intelligent man...