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[[File:Germanen der Bronzezeit, Gemälde von Wilhelm Petersen.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Germanics]] of the [[Bronze Age]]]]
'''Prehistory''' is a term for the time period between the first use of stone tools (about 3.3 million years ago by ''[[Homo]]'' primates) and the invention or importation of writing. The end of prehistory came at very different dates at different places.

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen’s<ref>Thomsen was author of ''Guideline to Nordic Antiquity'' (1836), published in German in 1837 (''Leitfaden zur nordischen Alterthumskunde'') and in English in 1848.</ref> “three-age system of European antiquity” divides human technological prehistory into three periods: the Stone Age, the [[Bronze Age]], and the [[Iron Age]]. It is used in the chronology for Europe, the Mediterranean world, and the Near East, but is of less importance for other areas.

The Stone Age is divided into the Paleolithic (literally meaning "old stone") period, the Mesolithic/Epipaleolithic period, and the Neolithic (literally meaning "new stone") period. The [[Neolithic]] period is associated with agriculture.

== Less politically correct aspects ==
Less politically aspects include associations between the spread of technologies and [[race]]-related aspects:
*regarding the first use of stone tools, the first appearance of ''[[Homo]]'' primates.
*regarding agriculture, one of many examples being the [[Bantu expansion]].
*regarding Bronze Age technology, there is an argued association with the [[Indo-Europeans]], argued for example in the 2010 book ''[[The Horse, the Wheel, and Language]].''
*regarding the Iron Age, see the [[Sea Peoples]] and [[Celts]].

== See also ==
*[[Civilization]]
*[[Noble savage]]
*[[Recent African origin of modern humans]]
* [[Multiregional origin of modern humans]]

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