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Neolithic
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- 1 Of or relating to the New Stone Age. not-comparable
"Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, "were part and parcel of the Neolithic phenomenon; that is, the so-called agricultural revolution." (Before Writing 41)."
- 2 Alternative spelling of Neolithic. alt-of, alternative
"With this thought in his mind, Challenger gave a contemptuous and condescending consent to the proposal that he should grace with his presence a proceeding which was, in his opinion, more fitted to the stone cabin of a neolithic savage than to the serious attention of one who represented the accumulated culture and wisdom of the human race."
- 3 hopelessly outdated informal
"What am I supposed to do with this neolithic piece of machinery?"
- 1 of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic) wordnet
- 1 The period of prehistory from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.
"Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory"
- 1 A person who lived during the New Stone Age.
"For the Neolithics, the stone was flint, and it's still impressive to see what they were able to achieve with it."
Etymology
From neo- + -lithic. Coined by English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.
From neo- + -lithic. Coined by English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.
From neo- + -lithic. Coined by English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.
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