The Peleolithic age started about 750,000 BC and ended around 8,500 BC. During the Paleolithic age humans used stone tools for the first time. The term derived from the Greek root : Palaios = "Old" and Lithos = "Stone". The Neolithic age is the New Stone age which took place between 8,500 BC and 2,500 BC and the bronze and the iron age came after that. Answer: The Paleolithic Age is also known as the B ) Old Stone Age.