<Table> <Tr> <Th> The Stone Age </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> ↑ before Homo (Pliocene) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> Paleolithic </P> <Dl> <Dd> Lower Paleolithic Late Stone Age <Dl> <Dd> Homo </Dd> <Dd> Control of fire </Dd> <Dd> Stone tools </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> <Dd> Middle Paleolithic Middle Stone Age <Dl> <Dd> Homo neanderthalensis </Dd> <Dd> Homo sapiens </Dd> <Dd> Recent African origin of modern humans </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> <Dd> Upper Paleolithic Late Stone Age <Dl> <Dd> Behavioral modernity, Atlatl, Origin of the domestic dog </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> <P> Epipaleolithic Mesolithic </P> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Microliths, Bow, Canoe </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> <Dd> Natufian </Dd> <Dd> Khiamian </Dd> <Dd> Tahunian </Dd> <Dd> Heavy Neolithic </Dd> <Dd> Shepherd Neolithic </Dd> <Dd> Trihedral Neolithic </Dd> <Dd> Pre-Pottery Neolithic </Dd> </Dl> <P> Neolithic </P> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Neolithic Revolution, Domestication </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> <Dd> Pottery Neolithic <Dl> <Dd> Pottery </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> ↓ Chalcolithic </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> The Stone Age </Th> </Tr>

What era relates to the old stone age from around 3 million years ago to 9000 bc