Comments on: The Stone Age Didn't End Because We Ran Out Of Stones https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/01/the-stone-age-didnt-end-because-we-ran-out-of-stones/ Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Mildred Melendez https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/01/the-stone-age-didnt-end-because-we-ran-out-of-stones/#comment-495741 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:03:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13995#comment-495741 I believe the stone age end because there was a change or evolution of technology. This is the time where there are new inventions coming out that slowly change the stone age into a new era.

]]> By: Artor https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/01/the-stone-age-didnt-end-because-we-ran-out-of-stones/#comment-495740 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:38:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13995#comment-495740 I suspect that the end of the stone age was tied to the beginning of agriculture. When people were still nomadic hunter-gatherers, there wasn’t much chance to learn how to work metal, since you can’t exactly carry a forge & furnace around with you. Once people settled in a village to farm the area, they started working native copper and went from there.

]]> By: Richard Milton https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/01/the-stone-age-didnt-end-because-we-ran-out-of-stones/#comment-495739 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:30:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13995#comment-495739 The reason the stone age ended was because people started experimenting with making ceramics and in the process of firing clay discovered how to smelt ores. They found that bronze made better tools than flint.Visit The Stone Age Tools website to learn more.
http://www.stoneagetools.co.uk

]]> By: sailor https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/01/the-stone-age-didnt-end-because-we-ran-out-of-stones/#comment-495738 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:17:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13995#comment-495738 Thomas, there are flints everywhere, people for fun make stone age tools today. We didn’t switch to steam ships because we ran out of wind.

]]> By: Thomas https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/01/the-stone-age-didnt-end-because-we-ran-out-of-stones/#comment-495737 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:37:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13995#comment-495737 Does anyone even know why the stone age ended? Who knows, maybe a local shortage of good flint for tools was the driving force behind experiments to use metal instead?

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