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PALAEOLITHIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Palaeolithic; Paleolithic; Paleolithic Age
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "Palaeolithic"):
Lower Paleolithic (the oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years ago)
Middle Paleolithic (the time period of Neanderthal man; ended about 35,000 years BC)
Upper Paleolithic (the time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed; ended about 10,000 years BC)
Holonyms ("Palaeolithic" is a part of...):
Stone Age ((archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)
Example:
paleolithic artifacts
Synonyms:
palaeolithic; paleolithic
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Stone Age ((archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements)
