The Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages

The Paleolithic Age is the earliest era of human history with the rude stone implement, a stone-cracked tool, as the main means of production.

The Neolithic period is the Stone Age, from the beginning of the use of masonry and earthenware, a grinded stone tool, to the time before the use of working tools made up of bronze and other metals.

The Bronze Age is the period when people used bronze, which was a compound of copper, tin, lead, etc. to make tools, weapons and accessories.

Typical bronze tools include daggers, axes, bows, and personal ornaments, etc.

The development of the productive forces by bronze tools not only led to the first major division of labor in the history of human society separating agriculture and pastoral farming, but also to its second division separating the bronze-manufactured craft industry from agriculture and pastoral farming into an independent production sector.