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adjectiveof or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)
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nounsecond 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
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Definition that contains paleolithic
- neanderthal extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
- lascaux a cave in southwestern France that contains Paleolithic paintings
- lower paleolithic the oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years ago
- neanderthal man extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
- paleolith a stone tool from the Paleolithic age
- mesolithic of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic)
- palaeoethnography the ethnography of paleolithic humans
- homo sapiens neanderthalensis extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
- neandertal extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
- cro-magnon extinct human of Upper Paleolithic in Europe