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The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. The term Middle Stone Age is used as an equivalent or a synonym for the Middle Paleolithic in African archeology. [1] The Middle Paleolithic broadly spanned from 300,000 to 50,000 years ago.
Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East: c. five thousand years ago). Paleolithic – the earliest period of the Stone Age Lower Paleolithic – time of archaic human species, predates Homo sapiens
Paleolithic Epipaleolithic Neolithic c. 7500 BCE Iron Age Roman. Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa: Earlier Stone Age Middle Stone Age Later Stone Age Neolithic c. 4000 BCE Bronze Age (3500 – 600 BCE) Iron Age (550 BC – 700 CE) Classic Middle Ages (c. 700 – 1700 CE) Asia Near East Levantine: Stone Age (2,000,000 – 3300 BCE) Bronze ...
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (c. 3.3 million – c. 11,700 years ago) (/ ˌ p eɪ l i oʊ ˈ l ɪ θ ɪ k, ˌ p æ l i-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old' and λίθος (líthos) 'stone'), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost ...
Late Woodland Period 500–1000 Baytown culture: 300–700 CE Plum Bayou culture: 400–900 CE Troyville culture: 300–700 CE Coles Creek culture: 700 – 1100 CE Mississippian culture 900–1500 (ending with European contact) Early Mississippian culture: 1000 – 1200 CE Middle Mississippian culture: 1200 – 1400 CE Late Mississippian ...
Middle Paleolithic ... Late Stone Age begins in Africa. c. 50 kya: Denisova hominin lives in the Altai Mountains, [31] with oldest estimated to be c. 76 kya.
Middle Paleolithic period [ edit ] The Middle Palaeolithic period ( c. 250,000 – c. 48,000 BCE ) is represented in the Levant by the Mousterian culture, known from numerous sites (both caves and open-air sites) through the region.
Paleolithic Europe, or Old Stone Age Europe, encompasses the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in Europe from the arrival of the first archaic humans, about 1.4 million years ago until the beginning of the Mesolithic (also Epipaleolithic) around 10,000 years ago. This period thus covers over 99% of the total human presence on the European continent. [1]