Paleolithic Period (500,000BC-10,000BC)

•Paleolithic age also called as old stone age, ancient cultural stage or level of human development characterised by use of rudimentary chipped stone tools.
•They were first in using tools made up off stone and bones.
•Paleolithic age started at 3.3 million years ago when human species started using stone to make tools.
•Paleolithic Period end with the beginning of neolithic period. About 10,000BC human learnt to raise crops and keep domestic livestock and no longer dependent on hunting, fishing and gathering.
Facts about Paleolithic age :-
•In 1865 an archeologist John Lubbock created the term Paleolithic, deprived from two Greek words 'Palaios' and 'lithos' which means 'old' and 'stone' respectively.
•During the paleolithic age man were hunters and gatherers for food. Food varies from animal flesh, fruits, wild vegetables, insects, nuts and legumes.
•They didn't experience malnutrition/famine cause they depend on a wide variety of food.
•They started to develope spiritual and religious beliefs.
•The stone made tools were spears, harpoons, hand axes, bow and arrows.
•Dogs were first domesticated during Upper Paleolithic age.
•In this age man started to built temporary shelters
•There were only about 1million people living during Paleolithic age.
•Climate change during Paleolithic age was characterized by glacial cycles. There were four major glacial cycles.
•The Paleolithic age ended with the end of ice age when the earth warmed up.