Stone Age
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"J. H. Rosny writes novels now in which the scene is laid in the Stone Age, and the subject of which is the abduction of a brawny brachycephalous pre-Aryan woman by a tall, white-skinned, dolichocephalous Aryan man."--Degeneration (1892) by Max Nordau |
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The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric time period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
Modern popular culture
The image of the caveman is commonly associated with the Stone Age.
Depictions of the Stone Age include the best-selling Earth's Children series of books by Jean M. Auel, which are set in the Paleolithic and are loosely based on archaeological and anthropological findings.
The 1981 film Quest for Fire by Jean-Jacques Annaud tells the story of a group of early homo sapiens searching for their lost fire.
While the idea that human beings and dinosaurs coexisted is sometimes portrayed in popular culture in cartoons, films and computer games, such as The Flintstones and One Million Years B.C., the notion of hominids and non-avian dinosaurs co-existing is not supported by any scientific evidence.
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