Q 01/05

Roughly how long did the Stone Age last?

A) About 3.4 million years

B) About 10,000 years

C) About 200,000 years

D) About 65 million years

Answer · why

A) About 3.4 million years

That is roughly 99% of human history; it ended between 4000 and 2000 BC depending on the region.

Q 02/05

What technological development marks the end of the Stone Age?

A) The domestication of horses

B) The smelting of copper

C) The invention of writing

D) The invention of the wheel

Answer · why

B) The smelting of copper

Gold and copper were hammered for ornaments earlier, but melting and smelting copper is the true dividing line.

Q 03/05

The Stone Age is the first period of which archaeological scheme?

A) The Vital Articles

B) The three-age system

C) The geological column

D) The Linnaean taxonomy

Answer · why

B) The three-age system

The Bronze Age and Iron Age follow it.

Q 04/05

Which Danish museum curator first arranged prehistory scientifically into stone, bronze and iron ages?

A) Sophus Müller

B) Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

C) Rasmus Nyerup

D) Jens Jacob Worsaae

Answer · why

B) Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

He worked with the collections of the Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen from 1816 to 1825.

Q 05/05

What are the three divisions of the Stone Age, in order?

A) Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic

B) Neolithic, Mesolithic, Paleolithic

C) Lower, Middle, Upper Pleistocene

D) Archaic, Classical, Formative

Answer · why

A) Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic

Old stone, middle stone and new stone; the Neolithic often overlaps the Copper Age.