"stone age" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

referred to in: archaeology, archeology - the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures

is an instance of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
has:
- 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)
is a part of: prehistoric culture, prehistory - the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word