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Encyclopedia > 35,000 BC
This time period is part of the
Pleistocene epoch.
Holocene
Mesolithic or Epipaleolithic
Neolithic
Pleistocene
Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic
Middle Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic – lit. old stone from the Greek paleos=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

The Paleolithic is followed by the Mesolithic or Epipaleolithic.


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1650 BC - Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, copy of a lost scroll from around 1850 BC, the scribe Ahmes presents first known approximate value of π at 3.16, the first attempt at squaring the circle, earliest known use of a sort of cotangent, and knowledge of solving first order linear equations.
300 BC - Euclid in his Elements studies geometry as an axiomatic system, proves the infinitude of prime numbers and presents the Euclidean algorithm; he states the law of reflection in Catoptrics, and he proves the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
250 BC - late Olmecs had already begun to use a true zero (a shell glyph) several centuries before Ptolemy in the New World.
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