PALAEOLITHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Palaeolithic mean? 

• PALAEOLITHIC (noun)
  The noun PALAEOLITHIC has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PALAEOLITHIC used as a noun is very rare.

• PALAEOLITHIC (adjective)
  The adjective PALAEOLITHIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)

  Familiarity information: PALAEOLITHIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALAEOLITHIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Palaeolithic; Paleolithic; Paleolithic Age

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Palaeolithic"):

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

Middle Paleolithic (the time period of Neanderthal man; ended about 35,000 years BC)

Upper Paleolithic (the time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed; ended about 10,000 years BC)

Holonyms ("Palaeolithic" is a part of...):

Stone Age ((archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements)

• PALAEOLITHIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

palaeolithic; paleolithic

Context example:

paleolithic artifacts

Pertainym:

Stone Age ((archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements)

 Context examples 

The study of the human diet in Palaeolithic times is currently among the research areas generating the greatest advances in knowledge.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet is conducted mainly on the basis of the so-called ‘stable isotopes’ of carbon and nitrogen, which are present in the collagen of human bones.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)