The given statement is false, as Paleolithic people thrived in the groups of 20 to 30 individuals.
At the time of Paleolithic, the hominins gathered together in brief societies, like bands, and survived by fishing and gathering plants, scavenging or hunting wild animals. The Paleolithic era is featured by the application of knapped stone tools, however, tools made up of woods and bones were also used by humans at that time.