Different

Periods of
Cultural
Evolution

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the
three-age division of the prehistory and
protohistory of humanity. It was
preceded by the Stone Age and the
Bronze Age. The concept has been
mostly applied to Iron Age Europe and
the Ancient Near East, but also, by
analogy, to other parts of the Old
World.
Cultural Evolution is an
evolutionary theory of social
change. It follows from the
definition of culture as "information
capable of affecting individuals'
behavior that they acquire from
other members of their species
through teaching, imitation and
other forms of social transmission".
Paleolithic Period, or Old Stone Age,
Ancient technological or cultural stage
characterized by the use of
rudimentary chipped stone tools.
During the Lower Paleolithic (c.
2,500,000–200,000 years ago), simple
pebble tools and crude stone choppers
were made by the earliest humans.
The Neolithic period, or New Stone
Age, is an Old World archaeological
period and the final division of the
Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic
Revolution, a wide-ranging set of
developments that appear to have
arisen independently in several parts
of the world.
Different Periods of
Cultural Evolution:
1. Paleolithic Age
2. Mesolithic Age
3. Neolithic Age
4. Copper Age
5. Bronze Age
6. Iron Age
A Prehistoric Period
that followed the Stone
Age and preceded the
Iron Age, when certain
weapons and tools came
to be made of bronze
rather than stone.
The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
is the Old World archaeological period
between the Upper Paleolithic and the
Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is
often used synonymously, especially
for outside northern Europe, and for
the corresponding period in the Levant
and Caucasus.
The Copper Age, also called the
Chalcolithic or eneolithic or
Aeneolithic, is an archaeological
period characterized by regular
human manipulation of copper, but
prior to the discovery of bronze
alloys.