Two sides of a stone
hand axe: Spain 350kya
A group of typical hand axes
Later Palaeolithic blades made by
Homo sapiens The Palaeolithic (or Paleolithic) was a period of prehistory when humans made stone tools. It was the first and longest part of the Stone Age. It began around 3.3 million years ago and ended around 11,650 years ago. About 99% of human history happened in the Palaeolithic.