Paleolithic definition

Paleolithic

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WordNet

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

"Paleolithic artifacts"

(2) 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

WiktionaryText

From paleo- + + -ic.

A period that lasted from two and a half million years ago to 10,000 BC; the Old Stone Age.

Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age).