The Stone Age is contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo, the only exception possibly being the early Stone Age, when species prior to Homo may have manufactured tools. Modern Awash River, Ethiopia, descendant of the Palaeo-Awash, source of the sediments in which the oldest Stone Age tools have been found The Stone Age is the first of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use. Bone tools were used during this period as well but are rarely preserved in the archaeological record. Stone Age artifacts include tools used by modern humans and by their predecessor species in the genus Homo, and possibly by the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 8700 BC and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking. The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. Mesolithic Microliths, Bow, Canoe Natufian Khiamian Tahunian Heavy Neolithic Shepherd Neolithic Trihedral Neolithic Pre-Pottery Neolithic Late Stone Age Behavioral modernity, Atlatl, Middle Stone Age Homo neanderthalensis Homo sapiens Recent African origin of modern humans Upper Paleolithic Homo Control of fire Stone tools Middle Paleolithic
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