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Stone age
A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
📖 Definitions of "Stone age"
proper noun
- 1
A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
- 2
Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era.
"If they attack our country, we'll bomb them back to the Stone Age!"
- 3
The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Stone age"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| old stone agenoun | The Paleolithic. |
| new stone agenoun | The Neolithic period. |
| paleolithicnoun | Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age). |
| 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. |
| acheuleannoun | (archaeology) Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes. |
| metal agenoun | The age characterised by the use of metal tools. |
| iron agenoun | An age characterized by the use of iron. |
| abbevilliannoun | (archaeology, dated) Of or relating to any of various early Paleolithic sites, particularly in Europe, that are characterized by the presence of bifacial stone axes. |
| acheuliannoun | Alternative spelling of Acheulean. [(archaeology) A lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.] |
| neolithicnoun | Of or relating to the New Stone Age. |
| 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.). |
| bronze agenoun | (archaeology) A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. |
| oldowannoun | (archaeology) Belonging to the earliest widespread stone-tool archaeological industry in prehistory. |
| industrynoun | (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade. |
| objective piecenoun | (archaeology) The initial piece of stone from which a tool is made. |
| reamernoun | A device for rendering citrus juice. |
| lithicnoun | (anthropology) A stone tool or projectile. |
| abradernoun | Something that abrades; a tool or machine for abrading. |
| paleoanthropologynoun | (anthropology) The scientific study of ancient human remains. |
| copper agenoun | (archaeology) A short or theoretical prehistoric period between the Neolithic and Bronze Age. |
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