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Neolithic

adjective

Of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic).

noun

Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere). Synonyms: Neolithic Age, New Stone Age.

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... beauty of Dartmoor lay chiefly along its fringes, where ancient villages stood securely sheltered along the banks of these streams; but in their higher reaches were the remains of "hut circles" and prehistoric antiquities of the earliest settlers, and relics of Neolithic man were supposed to be more numerous ...

— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor

... civilly, "there should arise the poor, primeval brute, in his neolithic wrath, to seize on the man to blame, and break every bone and sinew in ...

— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt; I was singer to my clan in that dim, red Dawn of Man, And I sang of all we fought and ...

— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling

... the period of any historical record the dog was domesticated in Europe. In the Danish Middens of the Neolithic or Newer Stone period, bones of a canine animal are imbedded, and Steenstrup ingeniously argues that these belonged to a domestic dog; for a very large proportion of the bones of birds preserved in the refuse, consists of long bones, which it was found on trial dogs cannot ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin

... what has been the value of science to man, the answer is that its value is practically the value of the whole world in which we find ourselves to-day, or, at any rate, the difference between the value of our world and that of a world inhabited by Neolithic savages. ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

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