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Lower Paleolithic
The
Lower Paleolithic
(or
Lower Palaeolithic
) is the earliest subdivision of the
Paleolithic
or Old
Stone Age
. It spans the time from around
3.4 million year
s ago when the first evidence for
stone tool
production and use by
hominin
s appears in the current
archaeological record
, until around 300,000 years ago, spanning the
Oldowan
("mode 1") and
Acheulean
("mode 2")
lithics
industries.
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