Stone Age
The Stone Age was an expansive prehistoric period during which stone was broadly used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period went on for generally 3.4 million years, and ended between 8700 BCE and 2000 BCE with the approach of metalworking. Despite the fact that some basic metalworking of pliable metals, especially the utilization of gold and copper for purposes of ornamentation, was known in the Stone Age, it is the dissolving and purifying of copper that denotes the demise of the Stone Age. During the Stone Age, humans shared the planet to various now extinct out hominin relatives including Neanderthals and Denisovans. Facts About The Stone Age Early in the Stone Age, people lived in small groups. During much of this period, the Earth was in an Ice Age a time of colder worldwide temperatures and icy development. Mastodons, saber-toothed felines, monster ground sloths and other mega fauna wandered. Stone Age people hunted large mamma