LOWER PALEOLITHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lower Paleolithic mean? 

• LOWER PALEOLITHIC (noun)
  The noun LOWER PALEOLITHIC has 1 sense:

1. the oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years ago

  Familiarity information: LOWER PALEOLITHIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOWER PALEOLITHIC (noun)

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Meaning:

The oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years ago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Holonyms ("Lower Paleolithic" is a part of...):

Palaeolithic; Paleolithic; Paleolithic Age (second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,000 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC)