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What is the Paleolithic Era?​

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The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic or Palæolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 99% of the period of human technological prehistory.

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The old Stone Age, a period that lasted from about 2.5 million to 8000 B.C.E. and was marked by the use of simple stone tools by the earliest humans.

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