stone age

1. (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements (synset 115256760)
   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

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