During the Mesolithic, humans learned to hunt and fish in groups. They built boats and canoes and constructed the first wooden trackways that allowed them to safely cross wetlands.

Human Succession

Homo neanderthalensis, a Modern era image by Karen Carr and created for Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Includes .

- SS2783621 Captioned: "When the woman wants to grind any corn, she kneels down, and, taking i both hands the convex stone, she rubs it up and down in the hollow of the lower stone with a motion similar to that of a baker pressing down his dough and rolling it in front of him." Quern-stones are stone tools for hand-grinding a wide variety of materials. They are used in pairs. The lower, stationary, stone is called a quern, while the upper mobile stone is called a handstone. They were first…

Introduction: The Paleolithic period, also known as the Old Stone Age, was the earliest and longest period of human history, lasting from about 2.6 million years ago until approximately 10,000 BCE. During this time, humans lived in hunter-gatherer societies and relied on stone tools for survival. This era is marked by significant developments in human

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