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Definition of Paleolithic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic). "Paleolithic artifacts"

2. Noun. Second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC.

Definition of Paleolithic

1. a. Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

Definition of Paleolithic

1. Noun. A period that lasted from two and a half million years ago to 10,000 BC; the Old Stone Age. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age). ¹

3. Adjective. (alternative capitalization of Paleolithic) Often used more generally to suggest that something is extremely outdated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Paleolithic

1. Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paleolithic

paleointensities paleointensity paleokinetic paleola paleolae paleolatitude paleolatitudes paleolatitudinal paleolibertarian paleolibertarians

paleolimnological paleolimnologist paleolimnologists paleolimnology paleolith paleolithic (current term) paleoliths paleologies paleologism paleologisms

paleologist paleology paleomagnetic paleomagnetically paleomagnetician paleomagneticians paleomagnetism paleomagnetisms paleomagnetist paleomagnetists

Literary usage of Paleolithic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It was during this time of refrigeration that the men of the younger paleolithic Period lived. CLASSIFICATION OF THE paleolithic PERIOD. ..."

2. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"II paleolithic MAN WITH the deliberate manufacture of implements from flint nodules, we enter the beginning of paleolithic time and from here on our way is ..."

3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1894)
"paleolithic NOTES. The discussion is still going on as to the division between the ... The absence of the pottery from the paleolithic aye is supposed to be ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The general belief was that most of the places where paleolithic man was likely to have lived would have been deeply covered by later deposits of Nile silts ..."

5. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles by Nelson Appleton Miles, Marion Perry Maus (1896)
"It is believed that there was at least one paleolithic race in America before the advent of the race found here by Columbus. They were alike busy in their ..."

6. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee (1905)
"CHAPTER III paleolithic OR GLACIAL MAN IN calling attention here to the question of glacial or paleolithic man in North America, the object, as. indicated ..."

7. The Weathering of Aboriginal Stone Artifacts, No. 1.: A Consideration of the by Newton Horace Winchell, Minnesota Historical Society (1913)
"I have already noted that even paleolithic artifacts sometimes (though rarely) ... The central portion, on one side, is of paleolithic age, with undulating, ..."

8. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"... IX THE LATER POSTGLACIAL paleolithic MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN (Later Palaeolithic Age) § 1. The Coining of Men Like Ourselves. § 2. ..."

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