STONE AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stone Age mean? 

• STONE AGE (noun)
  The noun STONE AGE has 1 sense:

1. (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements

  Familiarity information: STONE AGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STONE AGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "Stone Age"):

Eolithic; Eolithic Age (the earliest part of the Stone Age marked by the earliest signs of human culture)

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)

Epipaleolithic; Mesolithic; Mesolithic Age (middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago)

Neolithic; Neolithic Age; New Stone Age (latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere))

Domain category:

archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)

Holonyms ("Stone Age" is a part of...):

prehistoric culture; prehistory (the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word)

 Context examples 

Martin and Cheese- Face were two savages, of the stone age, of the squatting place and the tree refuge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a host of the stone age that we were accompanying to battle—we with the last word of the gunsmith's art from St. James' Street and the Strand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)