The Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age (3 million–10,000 years ago)
The hunting and food gathering of Paleolithic people shaped their social development
Paleolithic people developed:
Spoken language
Bone, wood, and stone tools
Control of fire
Mythic-religious ideas to explain nature, birth, sickness, and death
Burial practices
Artistic representations of animals on cave walls, sympathetic magic
The Neolithic Age began 10,000 years ago in the Near East
Neolithic people developed the following…
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