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Stone Age (Term used in arch ology)

or AGE OF STONE, is a term used in archæology to denote the condition of a people using stone as the material for the cutting tools and weapons which, in a higher condition of culture, were made of metals. The exculture, were made of metals. The expression "age," when used in this connection, is not therefore significant of a fixed period in chronology, but implies merely the time, longer or shorter, earlier or later, during which the condition subsisted. The duration of such a condition must necessarily have varied from various causes in different areas, and chiefly in consequence of contact with higher degrees of culture. Populations placed in remote situations, and on that account remaining uninfluenced by such contact-like the islanders of the South Pacific and the Eskimos of the extreme North for instance-have re-