English > Stone Age: 1 sense > noun 1, timeMeaning | (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements. |
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Category | archeology, archaeology | The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures |
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Instance of | time period, period of time, period | An amount of time |
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Part of | prehistory, prehistoric culture | The time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word |
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Parts | Eolithic Age, Eolithic | The earliest part of the Stone Age marked by the earliest signs of human culture |
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Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic | middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago |
Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age | Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere) |
Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic | 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 |
Spanish | edad de piedra, Edad de Piedra |
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Catalan | edat de pedra, Edat de pedra, Edat de Pedra |
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Adjectives | palaeolithic | of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic) |
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