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Paleolithic

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Word	Definition
palaeolithic	Alternative spelling of Paleolithic. [Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age).]

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Word	Definition
palaeolithic	Alternative spelling of Paleolithic. [Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age).]
old stone agenoun	The Paleolithic.
neolithicnoun	Of or relating to the New Stone Age.
new stone agenoun	The Neolithic period.
stone agenoun	(archaeology, paleontology) A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
middle stone agenoun	A period of African prehistory between the Early Stone Age and the Late Stone Age, generally considered to have begun around 280,000 years ago and ended around 50–25,000 years ago.
paleoarcheannoun	(geology) Of a geologic era within the Archaean eon from about 3600 to 3200 million years ago; the first aerobic bacteria appeared at this time.
paleogenenoun	(geology) Of a geologic period within the Cenozoic era; comprises the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene epochs from about 65 to 23 million years ago.
epipaleolithicnoun	Mesolithic
palaeolithnoun	Alternative form of paleolith. [A relic from the Paleolithic era.]
archaeozoicnoun	(geology) Of or pertaining to the Archaeozoic.
leptolithicnoun	Upper Paleolithic.
aneolithicnoun	The Eneolithic, Chalcolithic or Copper Age.
archæozoicnoun	Obsolete form of Archaeozoic. [(geology) Period of time determined to exist prior to 2.5 thousand million years ago.]
palaeoarchaeannoun	(dated) Alternative spelling of Paleoarchean. [(geology) Of a geologic era within the Archaean eon from about 3600 to 3200 million years ago; the first aerobic bacteria appeared at this time.]
palæocenenoun	Archaic spelling of Paleocene. [(geology) A geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 65 to 56 million years ago; marked by the rise of the first large mammals in a tropical climate.]
mesolithicnoun	Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10000 and 3000 BC.
archeozoicnoun	Alternative form of Archaeozoic. [(geology) Period of time determined to exist prior to 2.5 thousand million years ago.]
archaicnoun	(archaeology, US, usually capitalized) The prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
paleocenenoun	(geology) A geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 65 to 56 million years ago; marked by the rise of the first large mammals in a tropical climate.