The stone age was a period of time when no person could live in a new house. The stone age is a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with a sharp edge , point or a 3 . 4 million years and ended 6000 BCE and 2000 BCE and ended with a advent of metalworking. The stone age is further subdivided by the stone age tools in use . The stone age is the first age of the three age system archaeology , which divide human technological prehistoric into three periods. The terms stone age,bronze age and   Iorn age were never meant to suggest that advancement and time periods prehistoric