This name was first put forward by British archaeologist lubbock in 1865, when the geological age had entered the Pleistocene. The Stone Age did not mean that people only used stone tools at that time.
According to a large number of cultural relics unearthed in modern archaeology, thousands of years ago, the ancients entered the civilized period of smelting and casting, rice planting, pottery making and textile. Bronze and iron are metal products, and few have been preserved for thousands of years; Pottery and jade can be preserved for a long time, and there are many unearthed relics.
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The Paleolithic Age is a stage of human cultural development marked by the use of forged stone tools in archaeology, and it is the early stage of the Stone Age. It is generally believed that this period was about 2.5 million years ago-about/kloc-0.0 million years ago. The geological age belongs to the late Pliocene Pleistocene. Generally speaking, the period is divided into three parts, namely, the early, middle and late Paleolithic period, which are roughly equivalent to homo habilis and homo erectus, early homo sapiens and late homo sapiens respectively.