Adjacent Words

paleolithic definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic); "paleolithic artifacts" [syn: paleolithic, palaeolithic] n
1: second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC [syn: Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1865 of or relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age characterized by rough or chipped stone implements

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Paleolithic Pa`le*o*lith"ic, a. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the ``Stone Age;'' the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.