It began at least 2.6 million years ago, when researchers found the earliest evidence of humans using stone tools ... or the Old Stone Age; Mesolithic Period, or Mid Stone Age; and Neolithic ...

While Paleolithic (early Stone Age) artifacts point to the use of wood for simple tools such as spears or throwing sticks, later Mesolithic and Neolithic artifacts reflect far more sophisticated ...

Radiocarbon dating analysis has established its age at around 5500 BCE, placing it firmly within the Late Mesolithic. A section of the ... was not uncommon at the time. Deposited stone, bone and ...

They used flint tools to hunt animals ... available on the Stone Age on BBC Teach, like these short animated films that show the story of Britain - from the Mesolithic Stone Age through to ...

to which all who were then known to be interested and engaged in forming collections of implements of this phase of the Stone Age were asked to contribute. The mesolithic period had been somewhat ...

The most significant evidence of the presence in Wales of Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age people ... Britain of a ritual burial. The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age (10000-4000 BC) Continuous ...

tools and weapons made from bone, antler and stone, and rare traces of woodworking. The site near Scarborough originally lay on the shore of an island in an ancient lake and dates to the Mesolithic, ...