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NEOLITHIC AGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Neolithic Age mean?
• NEOLITHIC AGE (noun)
The noun NEOLITHIC AGE has 1 sense:
1. latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
Familiarity information: NEOLITHIC AGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Neolithic; Neolithic Age; New Stone Age
Instance hypernyms:
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Holonyms ("Neolithic Age" is a part of...):
Stone Age ((archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements)
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