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UK
/pˌæliːəlˈɪθɪk/
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NOUN
- 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
How To Use Palaeolithic In A Sentence
- He has emerged from a period of unease about your and Julia's brief and palaeolithically distant college relationship to become a trusted friend.
- Shown in cave paintings in France and Spain, these were a favourite quarry of Palaeolithic hunters, and were eventually hunted to extinction.
- Not one could grasp, or even imagine, the possibility that our simple-minded Palaeolithic ancestors were capable of art.
- Few traces exist of the settlements of the earliest Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in Southern France.
- As prehistory, these are typically based on sequences ranging from palaeolithic stone axes through bronze age pottery to iron age swords.
- The method is found in many periods of art from the silhouettes of hands in palaeolithic cave paintings, in Egyptian art, and on Greek vases.
- As prehistory, these are typically based on sequences ranging from palaeolithic stone axes through bronze age pottery to iron age swords.
- The caves at Creswell Crags are known to have been occupied in palaeolithic times because hunters left behind bone and flint stone tools.
- Worn teeth with a discoloured crust up by the gums over a dark, hollow Palaeolithic mouth, maybe a stalactite coming down at the back there. A DARKENING STAIN
- Not one could grasp, or even imagine, the possibility that our simple-minded Palaeolithic ancestors were capable of art.