paleolithic

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

adjective

of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)

Roots

palaiospaleo- · Greek · ancient, old lithoslith- · Greek · stone ikos-ic · Greek · relating to

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