The stone age was a period of history which began in approximately 2 million B.C. and Iasted until 3000. Its name was derived from the stone tools and weapons that modern scientists found. This period was divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic ages. During the first period (2 million to 8000 B.C.), the first hatchet and use of fire for heating and cooking were developed. As a result of the Ice Age, which evolved about million years into the Paleolithic age people were forced to seek pottery and the first fish hooks, took dogs hunting and developed the bow and arrow, which were used until the fourteenth century pottery and the first fish hooks, took dogs hunting and developed the bow and arrow, which were used until the fourteenth cientury A.D. The Neolithic age (6000 to 3000 B.C.) humankind domesticating sheeps, goats and pigs, being less nomdic than in previous eras, establishing permanent settlements and creating governments.The paragraph is concerned with