Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by general era]
5. three-age system

Narrower term/s

• Paleolithic[+]
  • African Paleolithic periods [NP] [+]
    • Aterian
    • Dabban
  • Lower Paleolithic [+]
    • [European Lower Paleolithic styles and periods] [NP] [+]
      • Abbevillian
      • Clactonian
      • Acheulian
      • Tayacian
      • Levalloisian
  • Middle Paleolithic [+]
    • [European Middle Paleolithic styles and periods] [NP] [+]
      • Mousterian
      • Levalloiso-Mousterian
      • Micoquian
      • Neanderthal (culture)
  • Upper Paleolithic [+]
    • [European Upper Paleolithic styles and periods] [NP] [+]
      • [Eastern European Upper Paleolithic styles and periods] [+]
      • [Western European Upper Paleolithic styles and periods] [+]
    • [Eastern European Upper Paleolithic styles and periods] [NP] [+]
      • East Gravettian
      • Pavlovian
      • Szeletian
    • [Western European Upper Paleolithic styles and periods] [NP] [+]
      • Aurignacian
      • Gravettian
      • Solutrean
      • Magdalenian
      • Perigordian [+]
      • Châtelperronian
      • Uluzzian
  • Levantine Paleolithic periods [NP] [+]
    • Jabrudian
    • Kebaran
    • Natufian
    • Levanto-Aurignacian
  • Epipaleolithic
  • Anatolian Paleolithic [NP] [+]
    • Kemerian
    • Belbasi
    • Beldibi
  • Egyptian Paleolithic [NP] [+]
    • Sebilian
  • Chinese Paleolithic periods [NP] [+]
    • Choukoutien
  • [West Turkestani Paleolithic styles and periods] [NP] [+]
    • Aman-Kutan
    • Karatau
    • Teshik-Tash
    • Zaraut-Say
• Mesolithic
• Neolithic[+]
  • Early Neolithic
  • Middle Neolithic
  • Late Neolithic
• Eolithic

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the period and culture associated with the first age of the Three Age system developed by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen in 1836. It is a stage in the development of hominids or of a prehistoric human culture characterized by the creation and use of stone tools and weapons, as distinguished from later stages of culture when bronze or iron were used for these purposes. The Stone Age is generally divided into three periods, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic, distinguished from each other by the degree of sophistication evident in the fashioning and use of tools.