2006-06-28 00:36:53 · 8 answers · asked by Frik 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Stone Age was a period in time when man started making tools from stone: weapons for killing animals, tools to clean the skins etc. It was before the times when man started mining metals and forging alloys ie: Iron Age, Bronze Age
2006-06-28 00:40:56 · answer #1 · answered by alia_vahed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Stone Age is the longest period in man's history and probably spanned 2.6 million years after the last ice age. It is basically when man used only stone made items for his survival. The period is usually divided into 3 eras...the old stone age, the middle stone age (mesolithic) and the new stone age (neolithic). It should be noted that historians do not agree when the stone age officially ended since it varied in different geographic regions. The stone age is said to have ended when man begun using bronze (hence the bronze age). Iron was discovered a little later and ushered in the Iron Age.
2006-06-28 09:30:37 · answer #2 · answered by boston857 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stone age is a certain stage in technological advancement when stone was been used for invention to easy the man problems. Now we can talk of computer age
2006-06-28 08:14:53 · answer #3 · answered by tope-ikole 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last million years, or half of the last ice age.
Stone blades (and fire) were made (by tapping flints together) by Homos habilis, erectus, neanderthalis and sapiens (humans). The Paeleolithic (old stone) is pre-human; the mesolithic is early human and the neolithic is from the end of the ice age (10k) to the start of bronze use around 5500 years ago.
The stone age is the end of pre-history; the bonze age is the start of "history". And before the stone age one might argue for a wood age, since thats largely what chimps beat intruders up with.
2006-06-28 08:12:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the stone age was wen there werent other materials like metel and early man made everything out of stone from wheels to houses
2006-06-28 08:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by wittlebaby 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The period of time in history before we had any knowledge of metal and uses only stone tools and weapons, lived in caves..all that stuff
2006-06-28 07:40:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
stone age is the very old time,the days of our forefathers.Times when there no civilisation.
2006-06-28 07:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by alomoja 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a period in man's development where his most advanced tool was the stone. (Way back when in caveman times)
2006-06-28 07:40:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋