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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
palaeolithic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As prehistory, these are typically based on sequences ranging from palaeolithic stone axes through bronze age pottery to iron age swords.
▪ Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
palaeolithic

palaeolithic \palaeolithic\ adj. Same as paleolithic.

Syn: paleolithic.

Wiktionary
palaeolithic

a. (alternative case form of Paleolithic English)

WordNet
palaeolithic
  1. adj. of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic); "paleolithic artifacts" [syn: paleolithic]

  2. n. 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]

Usage examples of "palaeolithic".

He concludes that there is a complete similitude between many of the chipped flints from Cantal and the classic specimens from the best-known Palaeolithic sites.

As she pauses opposite the site of the gallows, a fight breaks out: some palaeolithic hang-over takes exception at the robotic mime apeing his movements, and swiftly rips its arm off.

It was still striving to hold the cells of his body in stasis, even though the shell of the reefer had ruptured in great Palaeolithic cracks, fibrous metallic growth spilling out.

In the same way, the three main lunar phases gave rise to the concept of the Triple Goddess who has been worshipped in cultures from palaeolithic times where early cave art displayed crescent moons that have been identified as Goddess symbols.