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Female figurine in the form of a jarClay jar in the shape of a female figurine, Neolithic Period, c. 3000 bce, from Vidra; in the National Antiquities Museum, Bucharest, Romania. Height 42.5 cm.

Stone Age, First known period of prehistoric human culture, characterized by the use of stone tools. The term is little used by specialists today. See Paleolithic Period; Mesolithic Period; Neolithic Period; stone tool industry. See also Bronze Age; Iron Age.

stone tool industry Summary
Stone tool industry, any of several assemblages of artifacts displaying humanity’s earliest technology, beginning more than 2 million years ago. These stone tools have survived in great quantities and now serve as the major means to determine the activities of hominids. Archaeologists have
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Paleolithic Period Summary
Paleolithic Period, ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. The popular Paleo diet, or Stone Age diet, is based on foods humans presumably would have consumed during the Paleolithic Period. (See also Stone Age.) The onset