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| PREHISTORY TO THE BRONZE AGE IN WESTERN EUROPE Paleolithic (c. 50,000–c. 8000 B.C.) Ice Age ends c. 30,000 B.C. Use of stone tools and weapons Hunting-and-gathering life style First evidence of sculpture (c. 25,000 B.C.) First evidence of painting (c. 25,000 B.C.) Shamanism Rock Paintings of Australia The Dreaming Mesolithic (c. 8000–6000/4000 B.C.) Tassili rock painting, Algeria Transition to agriculture Neolithic (c. 6000/4000–c. 1500 B.C.) Settled communities Megalithic architecture Ggantija Temple, Malta Stonehenge, England |