second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC

of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic); "paleolithic artifacts"

Referring to the ancient stone age.

Old Stone Age, begins around 500.000 years ago and ends with the Mesolithic around 7000 BC

designations for period in human prehistory. Lithos= stone; paleo= old; meso= middle; neo= new

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (Greek παλαιός paleos=old and λίθος lithos=stone or the 'Old Stone Age') was the first period in the development of human technology of the Stone Age. It began with the introduction of the first stone tools by hominids such as Homo habilis (around 2,000,000 years ago) and lasted until the introduction of agriculture. It ended with the Mesolithic, or in areas with an early neolithisation, the Epipaleolithic.