neolithic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
adjective of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic)

The Neolithic Age was at hand. — Astounding Stories, May, 1931, Various
Look!’ She showed the picture to all the Neolithic ladies sitting patiently on the Stranger-man. — Just so stories, Rudyard Kipling
Some blankets rolled in a waterproof lay upon that very stone slab upon which Neolithic man had once slumbered. — The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

Neolithic Age, New Stone Age

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