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Definition of Middle paleolithic
1. Noun. The time period of Neanderthal man; ended about 35,000 years BC.
Group relationships: Palaeolithic, Paleolithic, Paleolithic Age
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Paleolithic
Literary usage of Middle paleolithic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"9 on Headers' Service Card these simple flake industries of middle paleolithic
type persisted in Egypt long after compound tools, indicated by the presence ..."
2. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"... the middle paleolithic covers the whole of the last glaciation and is co-extensive
with the ..."
3. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1910)
"II. Second Period : Paleozoic Age. Primary Epoch. (Age of Fishes and Tree-Ferns.)
4. Older paleolithic age or Silurian epoch. 5. middle paleolithic ago , ..."
4. The Social History of the Western World, an Outline Syllabus by Harry Elmer Barnes (1921)
"(2) Mousterian or "middle paleolithic." (3) Aurignacian, Solutrean and Magdalenian
or "upper paleolithic. ..."
5. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"Recent discoveries have thrown valuable light on the upper middle Paleolithic
age, the Age of Reindeer. They come from caves in the Pyrenees mountains near ..."
6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1903)
"... fallen Palaeolithic.1 gravel from top of cliff ... ... 120 ... — Early
Palaeolithic. Hyde Common Pit 230 ... 150 Middle'Paleolithic. ..."