Original sentence: Consecutive habitation, spanning thousands of years from the Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods   (Old, Middle, and New Stone Age), to the Bronze and Iron Ages had left numerous artifacts behind
Edited sentence: Consecutive habitation, spanning thousands of years from the Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods (Old, Middle, and New Stone Age), to the Bronze and Iron Ages had left numerous artifacts behind