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eolithic
Of or relating to the postulated earliest period of human culture preceding the Lower Paleolithic. Not in scientific use.
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aurignacian
Relating to an Upper Paleolithic culture in Europe between the Mousterian and Solutrean cultures, dating from around 32,000 to 25,000 years ago and characterized by flaked stone, bone, and antler tools such as scrapers, awls, and burins (engraving tools). Aurignacian culture is associated with Cro-Magnon populations and is especially noted for its well-developed art tradition, including engraved and sculpted animal forms and female figurines thought to be fertility objects. The earliest fully developed cave art, such as the painted animals in the Lascaux cave in southwest France, dates from this period.
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azilian
Of or relating to a Mesolithic western European culture.
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capsian
Of, relating to, or being a Paleolithic culture of northern Africa and southern Europe.
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chellean
Abbevillian
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mousterian
Designating or of a Middle Paleolithic culture, associated with the Neanderthal cave people and characterized by the use of flaked hand axes, scrapers, etc.
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oldowan
Designating or of the oldest known Lower Paleolithic culture, characterized by pebble tools usually flaked in two directions to form simple cutters, choppers, scrapers, etc.
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Olduvai
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solutrean
Relating to an Upper Paleolithic culture in southwestern Europe between the Aurignacian and Magdalenian cultures, dating from around 21,000 to 17,000 years ago. The short-lived Solutrean culture was characterized by finely crafted tools, such as slender, leaf-shaped blades and shouldered points, as well as ornaments, carvings, and cave paintings.
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acheulean
Designating or of a Lower Paleolithic culture characterized by skillfully made bifacial flint hand axes
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magdalenian
Of or relating to the last Upper Paleolithic culture of Europe, succeeding the Solutrean.
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neolithic
Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning around 10,000 bc in the Middle East and later elsewhere, characterized by the development of agriculture and the making of polished stone implements.
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three age system
A system for classifying prehistoric artifacts according to successive stages of technological development, divided into the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages.
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mesolithic neolithic paleolithic
The earliest known period of human culture, marked by the use of stone tools.
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Mahotella
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noize
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pre-historic
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  • We may conclude then that there was a Bronze Age in most countries; that it was the direct result of increasing intercommunication of races and the spread of commerce; and that the discovery of metals was due to information brought to Stone-Age man in Europe by races which were already skilful metallurgists.

  • The contents of the relic beds indicate that they belong for the most part to the age of bronze, although in some cases they may be referred to the latter part of the Stone age.

  • He is a firespirit, who is pressed into man's service, and typifies the advance from the stone age to a higher stage of civilization (working in metals).

  • He now made up his mind to study the real wilderness in its gloom and vastness, and to meet face to face the dusky warriors of the Stone Age.

  • In the shadowy age which preceded the Stone age and hardly ended later than 10,000 B.C., the cave-dwellers of the Dordogne could draw elks, bisons, elephants and other animals at rest or in movement, with a freshness and realism which to-day only a Landseer can rival.

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