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 == Major periods of human history ==
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+General dates per onset of subsequent age
+!Paleolithic
+!Neolithic
+!Copper Age
+!Bronze Age
+!Iron Age
+!Classical Period
+|-
+|rise of mankind
+to 12,000 BC
+|12,000 BC
+to 4,000 BC
+|5,000-3,000 BC
+|3,300-1,100 BC
+|1,000 BC to 550 BC
+|
+|-
+| colspan="2" style="text-align:center" |Stone Age
+|Chalcolithic period,
+use of copper but mostly stone tools
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" |Prehistory (before writing)
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+| colspan="2" style="text-align:center" |stone tools and other hand-made or natural objects
+|copper smelting (heating, separating from other elements, and shaping into tools through molds)
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+|some pottery, baskets
+|pottery, baskets, ovens, farm tools
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|}
+See:
-=== Neolithic ===
+* [[Three-age system#Three-age%20system%20resumptive%20table|Three-age system - Resumptive Table (comparison chart - Wikipedia)]]
+* [https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/carrying-storing/oldest-pottery Oldest Pottery | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program (si.edu)]
-=== Paleolithic ===
+=== Three-Age System ===
-=== Copper Age ===
-=== Bronze Age ===
-=== Iron Age ===
-== Three-Age System ==
 * When putting together a chronological presentation of ancient artifacts, early 19th century archeologist C. J. Thomsen found that the objects stood out in the three groups of '''stone''', '''bronze''' and '''iron'''.
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 ** Hesiod's [[Ages of Man]] is a degradation: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron.
 ** Lucretius' is a progression: "Everything must pass through successive phases. Nothing remains forever what it was. Everything is on the move. Everything is transformed by nature and forced into new paths..."
-*
+*Periodization is mostly used for archaeological categorization
+*for students, it is helpful to understand social and political structures, population growth, and trade and other forms of cultural diffusion
 [[Category:World History]]
 [[Category:Timelines]]
 [[Category:Time]]