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Stone age refers to the period in which humans created most of their tools from stone. The dates vary according to the region of the Earth.

The term is from the three-age system. It's now subdivided into paleolithic, mesolithic and neolithic periods, which in turn are often further subdivided. It ends at the time that metal tools started to become widely used in the region: the bronze age or iron age.

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