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LOWER PALEOLITHIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lower Paleolithic mean?
• LOWER PALEOLITHIC (noun)
The noun LOWER PALEOLITHIC has 1 sense:
1. the oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years ago
Familiarity information: LOWER PALEOLITHIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax; ended about 120,000 years ago
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Holonyms ("Lower Paleolithic" is a part of...):
Palaeolithic; Paleolithic; Paleolithic Age (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)
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