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STONE AGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "Stone Age"):
Eolithic; Eolithic Age (the earliest part of the Stone Age marked by the earliest signs of human culture)
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)
Epipaleolithic; Mesolithic; Mesolithic Age (middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago)
Neolithic; Neolithic Age; New Stone Age (latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere))
Domain category:
archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)
Holonyms ("Stone Age" is a part of...):
prehistoric culture; prehistory (the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word)
