Lower Paleolithic
Noun
Meaning
the oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years ago
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About 700,000 years ago, a new Lower Paleolithic tool, the hand ax, appeared.
A somewhat more sophisticated Lower Paleolithic tradition, known as the Chopper chopping-tool industry, is widely distributed in the Eastern Hemisphere.
By the end of the Lower Paleolithic, members of the hominid family were living in what is now China, western Indonesia, and, in Europe, around the Mediterranean and as far north as England, southern Germany, and Bulgaria.
Lower Paleolithic main At sites dating from the Lower Paleolithic Period (about 2,500,000 to 200,000 years ago), simple pebble tools have been found in association with the remains of what may have been the earliest human ancestors.
Lower Paleolithic axes, and Neolithic and Bronze Age pots have been found in the area.
Middle Paleolithic societies, unlike Lower Paleolithic and early Neolithic ones, consisted of bands that ranged from 20 to 30 or 25 to 100 members and were usually nomadic.