neolithic

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)

Roots

neosneo- · Greek · new lithoslith- · Greek · stone ikos-ic · Greek · relating to

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