MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Middle Paleolithic mean? 

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

1. the time period of Neanderthal man; ended about 35,000 years BC

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time period of Neanderthal man; ended about 35,000 years BC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Middle 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)

 Context examples 

The caves were once home to Neanderthals who lived in Europe during the Middle Paleolithic period.

(Neanderthals used resin 'glue' for tools, National Science Foundation)