Labels: text | screenshot | font OCR: Stone Age people The words "stone age" makes many people think of those human beings who lived thousands of years ago, before the use of metal had been developed anywhere on Earth. However, there are several places on the planet where the stone age reached well into the twentieth century. In these areas, people had no metal until quite recently. They made all their tools and containers from wood, stone, shell, bone, bamboo, woven plant fibers, or other naturally occurring, more easily worked materials. These recent stone age peoples lived in tropical South America, in a few isolated parts of Southeast Asia, and north of Australia, on the giant, rugged island of New Guinea.