paleolithic

How To Use paleolithic In A Sentence

• Men write of and wonder at the strange gap between what are called the Paleolithic and the Neolithic ages, that is, between the ages when the spearheads and ax and arrowheads were of stone chipped roughly into shape, and the age of stone even-edged and smoothly polished. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
• A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone. Ulysses
• Marshall Sahlins demonstrated that Paleolithic people needed to work only 14 hours a week to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves.
• We as society slowly move closer to the axiom “that the land has always been ours,” aiming to provide an united and monolithic view of a historical walkabout from the Paleolithic to Tito, even though some of the episodes are not quite “safe” and lead to the above mentioned failures of reason. Global Voices in English » Macedonia: Alexander the Great as Media Bait
• A case in point is a otherwise wonderful book published 20+ years ago titled The Paleolithic Prescription. Rapid health improvements with a Paleolithic diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
• Archeological findings have placed knowledge of Iranian prehistory at middle Paleolithic times.
• In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears. The Gun-Brand
• The absence of phalluses and vulvae was remarkable, Mellaart thought, because they were often portrayed in the art of Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures outside Anatolia. The Goddess and the Bull
• The Paleolithic was a very cold period; humans were forced to the shoreline about 50,000 years ago, at the height of the last glaciation, actually got worse about 17,000 years ago. EconTalk
• As prehistory, these are typically based on sequences ranging from palaeolithic stone axes through bronze age pottery to iron age swords.