The stone age is not clearly delineated as a period of time. It really refers to the level of technology of a civilisation. For example up until a few hundred years ago the aboriginal Australians were ‘stone age people’ because they hadn’t developed metal tools. This doesn’t make them more ‘primitive’ or ‘backward’, it simply reflects the fact that they didn’t work metals.

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