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Palaeolithic

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Palaeolithic
the period of the emergence of primitive man and the manufacture of unpolished chipped stone tools, about 2.5 million to 3 million years ago until about 12 000 bc


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These range from tiny Palaeolithic arrowheads to imposing Roman sculptures, fruits of archaeological excavations in the surrounding Pais Vasco (Basque Country).
Francisco Mangado by Slessor, Catherine / The Architectural Review
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But recent analysis of the flints revealed they were in fact from the end of the Upper Palaeolithic - Old Stone Age - period, 14,000 years ago.
THE OLD TOWN; Settlement dates back 14,000 years by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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