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    DEJ 2.

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    STONE AGE
    Prehistory is divided into 3 parts:
    1. Stone Age 3,4 mil BC – 4000 BC
    2. Bronze Age 4000 BC- 700 BC
    3. Iron Age 700 BC – 550 BC
    The Stone Age marks a period of prehistory in which humans used primitive stone tools.
    Lasting roughly 2.5 million years, the Stone Age ended around 5,000 years ago when humans
    in the Near East began working with metal and making tools and weapons from bronze.

    Stone Age is divided into 3 periods: the Paleolithic Period, Mesolithic Period and Neolithic
    Period.

    Early in the Stone Age, humans lived in small, nomadic groups. During much of this period,
    the Earth was in an Ice Age—a period of colder global temperatures and glacial expansion.

    About 14,000 years ago, Earth entered a warming period. Many of the large Ice Age animals
    went extinct. In the Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region bounded on the west by the
    Mediterranean Sea and on the east by the Persian Gulf, wild wheat and barley became
    plentiful as it got warmer.

    Some humans started to build permanent houses in the region. They gave up the nomadic
    lifestyle of their Ice Age ancestors to begin farming.

    Much of what we know about life in the Stone Age and Stone Age people comes from the
    tools they left behind.

    Hammerstones are some of the earliest and simplest stone tools. Prehistoric humans used
    hammerstones to chip other stones into sharp-edged flakes. They also used hammerstones to
    break apart nuts, seeds and bones and to grind clay into pigment.

    As technology progressed, humans created increasingly more sophisticated stone tools. These
    included hand axes, spear points for hunting large game, scrapers which could be used to
    prepare animal hides and awls for shredding plant fibers and making clothing.

    Not all Stone Age tools were made of stone. Groups of humans experimented with other raw
    materials including bone, ivory and antler, especially later on in the Stone Age.

    Stone Age Food

    People during the Stone Age first started using clay pots to cook food and store things.

    The oldest pottery known was found at an archaeological site in Japan. Fragments of clay
    containers used in food preparation at the site may be up to 16,500 years old.

    Stone Age food varied over time and from region to region, but included the foods typical
    of hunter gatherers: meats, fish, eggs, grasses, tubers, fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts.

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