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The Stone Age in Ireland
The Stone Age is divided into three different periods:
- Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age)
- Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)
- Neolithic (New Stone Age)
Europe ’s first people are known as Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) hunter-gatherers. These people first settled in mainland Europe over 800,000 years ago and over 600,000 years ago in Britain . There is no definite evidence that Palaeolithic people lived in Ireland , although the museum's collections contain Palaeolithic objects from parts of Britain and Europe.
Image: Stone Age reconstruction drawing