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Periods of Prehistory

Lower Paleolithic:

Humans used crude tools

Upper Paleolithic:

- Humans began to develop a wider variety of tools

They also began to wear clothes, organize in groups with definite social structures, and practice art.

- Most lived in caves during this time

Neolithic:

- Social structures became even more complex, including the growth of a sense of family and the ideas of religion and government

- Humans learned to domesticate animals and produce crops, build houses, start fires, knit, spin, and weave

Human Development from the Lower Paleolithic to the Iron Age

Lower Paleolithic or Early Stone Age:

Beginning two or three million years ago- early humans used tools like needles, hatchets, awls, and cutting tools