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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning with the earliest chipped stone tools, about 2.4 million years ago, until the beginning of the Mesolithic Period, about 15,000 to 11,500 years ago in western Asia and southern Europe.
- noun The Paleolithic Period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by the existence of ancient and roughly finished stone implements.
- noun A stone implement of the paleolithic or stone age.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geol.) 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.
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- noun A period that lasted from two and a half million years ago to 10,000
BC ; the Old Stone Age. - adjective Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic
period or Paleolithicage ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
- adjective of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lubbock distinguished the Neolithic period from what he called the Paleolithic, or “Old Stone Age,” which preceded it.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Archaeologists use the terms Paleolithic and Neolithic to refer to earlier and later epochs of human prehistory, which can be distinguished by the types of artifacts they left behind, especially the types of stone tools they used.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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This diet is also called the Paleolithic diet because the focus is based on food available to cavemen during the Paleolithic Era, around 10,000 years ago.
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This diet is also called the Paleolithic diet because the focus is based on food available to cavemen during the Paleolithic Era, around 10,000 years ago.
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A case in point is a otherwise wonderful book published 20+ years ago titled The Paleolithic Prescription.
Rapid health improvements with a Paleolithic diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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I would recommend a book called The Paleolithic Prescription written about 20 years ago by an anthroplogist and physician that describes the unbelievable feats early man could perform.
Ancient Athenian athletes more fit than elite athletes of today | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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If true, what a wonderful antiquity is here unfolded for the human race, and what a wonderful lapse of time is included in what is known as the Paleolithic Age!
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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Men write of and wonder at the strange gap between what are called the Paleolithic and the Neolithic ages, that is, between the ages when the spearheads and ax and arrowheads were of stone chipped roughly into shape, and the age of stone even-edged and smoothly polished.
The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man Stanley Waterloo 1879
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The Paleolithic was a very cold period; humans were forced to the shoreline about 50,000 years ago, at the height of the last glaciation, actually got worse about 17,000 years ago.
EconTalk Russell Roberts 2010
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Emory's Armelagos said this work might help settle debates over the so-called Paleolithic diets, which periodically become trendy, advocating little more than wild meat, seafood, a few nuts, and vegetables.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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