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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the very beginning of the Stone Age; Eolithic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anthropology, denoting stone implements without designed modification in form, but selected according to fitness of form and gradually shaped by wear, without definite recognition of the shaping on the part of the operator. See technolithic.

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  • From the earliest Stone Age. (from Phrontistery)

    May 25, 2008