Stone Age
The Stone Age was the first period in the prehistory of humankind, preceding the Bronze and Iron Ages and characterised by the creation and use of primitive tools, some of which had a point, and others a sharp edge for cutting. It was also during that period that humankind discovered fire and how to control it. (PROSE: A History of Humankind)
Australopithecus afarensis, hominids whom lived around 3,000,000 BCE, were believed to have used primitive stone tools like sharpened rocks for cutting meat and breaking bones. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
During the Stone Age, some people inhabited Doggerland, a land bridge between the British Isles and continental Europe, before being forced to exodus on 7 September, 6200 BC. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)
The First Doctor's first trip with Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright was to Earth's Stone Age. According to the Doctor, even in the Stone Age there were politicians to deal with. (PROSE: Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child)
Upon entering Dr. Who's TARDIS and pressing a button, Monica, Buttons, and Cuthbert ended up in the Stone Age, where they found a Stone Age TV Studio, from which a caveman chased them. (COMIC: TV Terrors)
A plot by the Prometheans involved using the ancestral memory of the image of the Sun to revert the minds of those on Earth back to the Stone Age. The Eleventh Doctor was able to reverse this by sabotaging the chameleon circuit in his TARDIS, so that the Blue Box image would be implanted into the ancestral memory of Earth's history. (COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone)
According to the Silence, they had ruled the Earth since the Stone Age. (TV: Day of the Moon [+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"])
The Twelfth Doctor chased Missy, catching her up in the Stone Age. (PROSE: Dr. Twelfth)
Emmeron, a planet which was embroiled in a nuclear war by the time that the Second Great Dalek Occupation began, was reduced to a Stone Age level by the Alliance Daleks. (AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter One)
The Toymaker claimed that the game of catch started in the Stone Age. He recalled that a Stone Age man picked up a rock and threw it at another man, who failed to catch it, the stone killing him. He quoted the man apparently said "oh, what fun!" upon finding himself victorious in the game. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
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Jill Tarrant described the Exxilons as a "Stone Age tribe". (TV: Death to the Daleks)
During the Thousand Year War on Skaro, the Fourth Doctor observed that the discovery of a soldier with a uniform partly made of animal skins with a combat jacket made of "modern synthetic fibre" was like finding the remains of a Stone Age man with a transistor radio. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"])
