About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long period known as the Upper Paleolithic ... ever-emerging technological evidence Stone Age humans left behind. In this interactive ...

Stereotypical ‘Later Stone Age tools', for example ... These innovations suddenly appear, persist for relatively short periods of time, and then disappear for millennia before suddenly emerging ...

Around 6,000 years ago, instead of spending all their time hunting and gathering ... These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well ...

Ben Marwick During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such ... in that period of time,” study co-author ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...