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Stone Age (Old)

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Every paragraph the index cites under Stone Age (Old), once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

64:0.2The hu­man race is al­most one mil­lion years old, and the first half of its story roughly cor­re­sponds to the pre-Plan­e­tary Prince days of Uran­tia. The lat­ter half of the his­tory of man­kind be­gins at the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the ap­pear­ance of the six col­ored races and roughly cor­re­sponds to the pe­riod com­monly re­garded as the Old Stone Age.

64:6.24The Eu­ro­pean re­searches and ex­plo­rations of the Old Stone Age have largely to do with un­earthing the tools, bones, and artcraft of these an­cient blue men, for they per­sisted in Eu­rope un­til re­cent times. The so-called white races of Uran­tia are the de­scen­dants of these blue men as they were first mod­i­fied by slight mix­ture with yel­low and red, and as they were later greatly up­stepped by as­sim­i­lat­ing the greater por­tion of the vi­o­let race.

81:3.4The wide­spread use of met­als was a fea­ture of this era of the early in­dus­trial and trad­ing cities. You have al­ready found a bronze cul­ture in Tur­kes­tan dat­ing be­fore 9000 B.C., and the And­ites early learned to work in iron, gold, and cop­per, as well. But con­di­tions were very dif­fer­ent away from the more ad­vanced cen­ters of civ­i­liza­tion. There were no dis­tinct pe­ri­ods, such as the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages; all three ex­isted at the same time in dif­fer­ent lo­cal­i­ties.