Palaeolithic Age

the earliest stage of human biological and cultural development, characterized by a pre-agricultural lifestyle and the use of found tools. The term literally means ‘old stone age’ and is followed by the NEOLITHIC AGE. See HUNTER-GATHERERS.

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This is a nice 'pocket sized' hardback volume, 27x18x2 cm in size and of almost 200 pages, covering the history of the Iberian peninsula from the Palaeolithic age, 800,000 years ago, until AD 1500, and of Spain in particular from then up until 2011-12.

Jordi Indurain Pons & Emili Lopez Tossas (eds). Atlas Historico de Espana

Washington, September 21 ( ANI ): Humans from the Upper Palaeolithic Age recycled their stone artefacts to be put to other uses, a new study has revealed.

Humans stated recycling tools 13,000 years ago

There's almost a timeline to the paintings here: from the Upper Palaeolithic Age to the Mesolithic Age to the proto- historic, early historic and medieval periods.

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