LOWER PALEOLITHIC

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years ago

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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Holonyms ("Lower Paleolithic" is a part of...):

Palaeolithic; Paleolithic; Paleolithic Age (second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,000 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC)

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