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neolithic
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Word definitions for neolithic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to the later Stone Age," 1865, coined by John Lubbock, later Baron Avebury, (1834-1913) from neo- + -lith "stone."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context informal English) hopelessly outdated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neolithic \Ne`o*lith"ic\, [Neo- + -lith + -ic.] (Arch[ae]ol. & Geol.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone; the late stone age. Estimated as beginning around 9000 in the Middle East, this period is characterized ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Neolithic Age , Era , or Period , or New Stone Age , was a period in the development of human technology , beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology , in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world and ending ...
Usage examples of neolithic.
Our third division, advanced paleoliths and neoliths, refers to anomalously old stone tools that resemble the very finely chipped or smoothly polished stone industries of the standard Late Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.
SingIe-frequency, and the innards were positively neolithic, hand-assembled transistors and chipboards salvaged from imported consumer electronics.
All over the palace area, as the excavations went farther and farther down, the neolithic deposit was found to overlie the virgin soil, sometimes to a depth of 24 feet, showing that the site had been thickly populated in remote prehistoric times.
Costas had been advising Macleod on the best way to map the sunken Neolithic village, drawing on their success with photogrammetry at the Minoan wreck.
No, the Ainu, the earliest inhabitants, they were a Neolithic people, short, dark, thick and hairy, heavy beards and hair all over their bodies I suppose for the terrible cold.
Thus in lower Egypt the transitional Amratian culture -- a Neolithic culture that was acquiring the use of metal -- knew of gold from Nubia before 4000 B.
But Ross Barnett was heir to a political tradition that often cursed Mississippi with leaders of neolithic racism and appalling backwardness.
Something deep in my mind recalled that I had killed Set's carnosaurs in the Neolithic with not much more than bare hands.
SingIe-frequency, and the innards were positively neolithic, hand-assembled transistors and chipboards salvaged from imported consumer electronics.
The interpretation that chickpeas were actually domesticated there is supported by the fact that the oldest finds of possibly domesticated chickpeas in Neolithic archaeological sites come from southeastern Turkey and nearby northern Syria that date to around 8000 B.
Long before human beings learned to tame the wild ponies that they hunted for food, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse kept human numbers in balance with the rigors of the Neolithic landscape.
Neolithic hunting societies sometimes buried their members with amber grave goods.
When she'd learned they were going to visit a Neolithic society Alea had studied everything about them that Herkimer had on file.
Her taste in men's appalling… Remember that melon-headed berk with the neolithic arms that she was 'madly in love with'?
Remember that melon-headed berk with the neolithic arms that she was 'madly in love with'?