Reference meaning
Paleolithic
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second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC
Related source terms
paleolithic agepalaeolithic
Other meanings
2. adjective
of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)
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