Meaning | Second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting / lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC. |
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Synonyms | Paleolithic, Palaeolithic |
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Instance of | time period, period of time, period | An amount of time |
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Part of | Stone Age | (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements |
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Parts | Lower Paleolithic | The oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax |
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Middle Paleolithic | The time period of Neanderthal man |
Upper Paleolithic | The time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed |
Spanish | paleolítico |
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Catalan | paleolític |
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Adjectives | paleolithic | of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic) |
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