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UK
/nˌiːəʊlˈɪθɪk/
]
[ US /ˈnioʊˌɫɪθɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈnioʊˌɫɪθɪk/ ]
NOUN
- latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
How To Use Neolithic In A Sentence
- Researchers from the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Henan Province in Zhengzhou found the flutes, crafted from the hollow ulnae (wing bones) of red-crowned crane, among fragments of 30 others at the Neolithic (ca. 8000-2000 B.C.) site of Jiahu in central Henan Province. Oldest Musical Instruments Still Play a Tune
- Europe was last united in neolithic times, before the inseparable meshwork of land, people, community and trade separated into hierarchy, nations and cities.
- The henges represent the largest collection of Neolithic monuments outside southern England.
- At the moment, it is thought either to be a Neolithic axe rough-out or the work of a modern flint knapper.
- Oats, millet, opium poppies, and flax were also being cultivated by the end of the Neolithic period.
- Olives from wild trees (oleasters) were sporadically gathered, in the Near East, by Neolithic peoples about 10,000 years ago.
- Finally, to make the whole matter clear, let me repeat that this event, the inbreak of Self-consciousness, took place, or BEGAN to take place, an enormous time ago, perhaps in the beginning of the Neolithic Age. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
- He gives illustrations of some neolithic axes and hammers, and then proceeds to state that in the opinion of philosophers they are generated in the sky by a fulgureous exhalation (whatever that may look like) conglobed in a cloud by a circumfixed humour, and baked hard, as it were, by intense heat. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
- For Neolithic ceramic ornaments, this kind of a perfect counterchange is not an exception, but almost a rule.
- It is only in the rock-shelter area, B, that we have classic lunates, here residuals in neolithic levels.