The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic – lit. old stone from the Greekpaleos=old and lithos=stone – period is the oldest part of the stone age, dating from the first use of stone tools by hominids (maybe 2,000,000 years ago) to the end of the Pleistocene epoch. Subdivisions of the Paleolithic include the
By the 6th millenniumBC, organized and permanent settlements in regions of Africa were producing artifacts of metal to replace prior ones made of stone.
The earliest settlement in Jericho (9th millenniumBC) was a PPNA culture that eventually gave way to more developed settlements later, which included in one early settlement (8th millenniumBC) mud-brick houses surrounded by a stone wall, having a stone tower built into the wall.
By the 4th millenniumBC, in Nippur we find, in connection with a sort of ziggurat and shrine, a conduit built of bricks, in the form of an arch.
The painted ware of the 4th millennium, with geometric and animal figures on red, brown, and buff bodies, was not of the same high standard.
There, the ChavÃn style (which reached its height from about 800 bc to about 400 bc), with its jaguar motifs, was succeeded in the Classic period (1st millennium ad) by one of the finest pre-Columbian potteries, that of the Mochica culture of the north coast.
In the Mississippi Valley the Mound Builders of the 1st millenniumbc produced painted, modeled, and incised ware.
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