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    PALAEOLITHIC

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     I. (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 BCplay

    Synonyms:

    Palaeolithic; Paleolithic; Paleolithic Age

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    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)

     II. (adjective) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Example:

    paleolithic artifacts

    Synonyms:

    palaeolithic; paleolithic

    Classified under:

    Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

    Pertainym:

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

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