The Stone Age

Can you answer these questions about the era from the invention of stone tools until about 5,000 years ago?

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Last updated: September 12, 2023

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Year	Hint	Answer
c. 3300 BC	The Stone Age comes to an end in with the start of this metallic age in the Near East	Bronze Age
c. 3300 BC	Prehistory ends and history begins with the invention of...	Written language
c. 3400 BC	The earliest evidence of this Egyptian burial practice	Mummification
c. 5000 BC	The Vinča culture, in modern-day Serbia, are the first people to turn ore into metal. The metal that they refine is ...	Copper
c. 8000 BC	This crop, at the time resembling a tall grass, is first domesticated in modern-day Mexico	Maize
c. 9000 BC	Rising sea levels cause this land bridge between Asia and North America to disappear	Bering Land Bridge
c. 9500 BC	Göbekli Tepe, in this modern-day country, is the site of the world's earliest known monumental constructions	Turkey
c. 9700 BC	This "age" ends after global temperatures increase 10° Celsius from where they were in 20,000 B.C.	Ice Age
c. 10,000 BC	This part of the world is the first have permanent cities and agriculture	Fertile Crescent
c. 10,000 BC	This later part of the Stone Age begins with the inventions described above	Neolithic
c. 10,000 BC	This 6 meter long South American animal goes extinct, with evidence of human hunting	Giant sloth
c. 12,500 BC	This desert experiences a wet period which would last 8,000 years. Lake Megachad grows to nearly the size of the Caspian Sea.	Sahara
c. 33,000 BC	These close human relatives go extinct, with the last individuals living in modern-day Spain	Neanderthals
c. 50,000 BC	Humans first arrive on this land mass, likely causing the extinction of the marsupial lion and many other megafauna	Australia
c. 153,000 BC	This woman is born, the latest common ancestor of all humans alive today	Mitochondrial Eve
c. 2 mil BC	This "upright man" species evolves in Africa, later spreading throughout Asia and Europe	Homo erectus
c. 3.3 mil BC	This earliest part of the Stone Age begins with the first use of stone tools by hominids	Paleolithic

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Level 74

Sep 13, 2023

This is all I can think of when I hear lake Megachad

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Level ∞

Sep 13, 2023

Pretty sure that's a picture of Lake Gigachad.

Level 50

Oct 4, 2023

Wha..............?

Level 78

Sep 13, 2023

I got more right than I expected, I must be older than I thought.

Level 50

Oct 4, 2023

lol

Level 86

Sep 13, 2023

Just got my first confetti! Ridiculously pleased by that new feature.

Level 66

Sep 13, 2023

same, is that for gettin 5/5?

Level 77

Sep 13, 2023

I got it for the first time on a spotlighted quiz, so it must just be for getting them all right.

Level 84

Sep 13, 2023

For the curious, Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor of all currently living humans, is estimated to have lived 200,000 to 300,000 years ago.

Level 68

Sep 21, 2023

Yes indeed. And that is only possible because Mitochondrial Eve is merely the most recent common ancestor in a strict matrilineal line - not our most recent common ancestor.

Level 73

Mar 18, 2024

But... she lived more recently than 200,000 years ago. Doesn't that make her our most recent common ancestor, since all living humans have her as an ancestor and Y-chromosomal Adam lived further in the past?

Level 70

Sep 14, 2023

Please accept 'Palaeo'-lithic

Level ∞

Sep 14, 2023

Okay

Level 68

Sep 14, 2023

The Old Copper Complex of the Great Lakes region considerably predates the Vinca Culture, with the first examples of the culture, and the copper tools associated with it appearing at around 7,500 BC. Granted, the Old Copper Complex was working with effectively pure native copper nuggets, and were just cold-smelting it into shape, considerably easier than processing it from ore and requiring way less in the way of actual metallurgical knowledge, but they were directly working with the metal well before the Vinca culture did.

Level ∞

Sep 14, 2023

Interesting. The quiz has been changed to maintain technical accuracy.

I actually own a beautiful piece of native copper from Michigan.

Level 64

Sep 15, 2023

By 'mummification', do you mean 'embalment'? And if so, why is it not an accepted answer?

Level 71

Sep 18, 2023

I wish that quizzes could be manually reordered in series, particularly this one, because since this series’ quizzes are not in chronological order, such as the AD and BC quizzes alternating and the Stone Age being at the bottom, right after the 21st century. It really messes with my OCD and for quiz takers just trying to find the next quiz chronologically in the series.

Level 78

Sep 20, 2023

Technically, we're still in the current ice age, because permanent continental ice caps remain on Greenland and Antarctica. The start of the Holocene ~10k years ago was the end of the last glacial maximum, and the beginning of the current interglacial period.

Using the term ice age as it's used in this quiz is super common and universally understood, so it's up to QM whether that level of "um, actually" even matters.

Level 68

Sep 21, 2023

The Mitochondrial Eve clue is wrong. Mitonchondrial Eve is the last woman we all descend from in *strictly matrilineal line*, which means only through women. There may have been (and very probably have been) any number of much more recent common ancestors who we descend from through both men and women. This is also why "Y-chromosomal Adam" is not the mate of Mitochondrial Eve.

Level 73

Mar 18, 2024

Ohhh okay, I think I see what you're saying. So, for example, there could be a man who lived 40,000 years ago, who had two daughters. One of those daughters migrated far away. Today, everyone would be descended from at least one daughter, but neither daughter is an ancestor to everyone. But we wouldn't know of this man because his genes weren't passed down through a Y-chromosome, and because neither of his daughters are mitochondrial eves?

Are you confident that people like this very probably exist just because it's more likely for someone with multiple children to have at least one child of another sex rather than all children of their own sex? Or is there something else I'm missing?

Level 68

Dec 1, 2023

16/17, I didn’t know “maize” (or “corn”).

Level 79

Jan 26, 2024

Lake Megachad 😂

Level 47

Jan 26, 2024

Teosinte should also be accepted for the maize one!

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