Stone Chopping Tool

Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

made c.1.8 million years ago

Paleolithic

Woman from Villendorf

Austria

c 30,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Mammoth from Vogelherd Cave

Württemberg, Germany

c 30,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Swimming Reindeer

Montastruc, France

  c 11,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Spear-Thrower with Leaping Horse Montastruc, France

c 12,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Chauvet Cave

Ardèche River Valley, France

c 25,000 BCE

Paleolithic 

‘Old Stone Age’

c. 2,500,000 BCE – c.10,000 BCE

‘New Stone Age'

 c.10,000BCE – c.3500 BCE (in the Ancient Near East (ANE), as late as 2000 BCE in Europe)