PALEOLITHIC AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paleolithic Age mean? 

• PALEOLITHIC AGE (noun)
  The noun PALEOLITHIC AGE 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: PALEOLITHIC AGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALEOLITHIC AGE (noun)

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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 "Paleolithic Age"):

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 ("Paleolithic Age" is a part of...):

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