159k views
2 votes
What are the six major events that happened in the Paleolithic Age?

User Ianis
by
6.4k points

2 Answers

3 votes

Answer:During the Paleolithic Age, hominids grouped together in small societies such as bands and subsisted by gathering plants, fishing, and hunting or scavenging wild animals. The Paleolithic Age is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools

Step-by-step explanation:

User Sarkis Arutiunian
by
6.3k points
3 votes

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

About 250,000 BCE Neanderthals appear in Europe (evidence of burial of the dead and

religious beliefs).

About 100,000 BCE Cro-magnons appear in North Africa, Asia, and Europe; they were skillful

toolmakers and artists.

Invention of the axe, first evidence of cave paintings

About 14,000 to

12,000 BCE

End of the last Ice Age: glaciers and ice sheets in Europe, North

America, and Asia are receding; climate is warming; more plants are

available as food sources.

About 10,000 to

8000 BCE

Beginning of the Neolithic Age (New Stone Age): agriculture begins;

better tools are developed, people begin to settle in villages in some

areas.

About 8000 BCE Evidence of first city―Jericho―in Israel

About 6500 BCE City of Catal Hüyük built in Turkey

User Deepak Bhatia
by
5.6k points