upper paleolithic
11Paleolithic Period — or Old Stone Age Ancient technological or cultural stage characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. During the Lower Paleolithic (с 2,500,000–200,000 years ago), simple pebble tools and crude stone choppers were made by the… …
12Paleolithic Continuity Theory — The Paleolithic Continuity Theory (or PCT,Italian La teoria della continuità ) is a hypothesis suggesting that the hypothetical Proto Indo European language can be traced back to the Paleolithic era,tens of millennia earlier than the Chalcolithic …
13Paleolithic — noun second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC • Syn: ↑Paleolithic Age, ↑Palaeolithic • Instance Hypernyms: ↑time period, ↑period of time, ↑period •… …
14Paleolithic Age — noun second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC • Syn: ↑Paleolithic, ↑Palaeolithic • Instance Hypernyms: ↑time period, ↑period of time, ↑period • Part …
15Paleolithic — /pay lee euh lith ik/ or, esp. Brit., /pal ee /, adj. (sometimes l.c.) Anthropol. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in… …
16Paleolithic — Pa•le•o•lith•ic [[t]ˌpeɪ li əˈlɪθ ɪk[/t]] esp. brit. [[t]ˌpæl i [/t]] adj. ara (sometimes l.c.) of, designating, or characteristic of the early phase of the Stone Age: usu. divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic c2,000,000–c200,000… …
17upper — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, comparative of 2up Date: 14th century 1. a. higher in physical position, rank, or order < the upper lip > < upper management > b. farther inland < the upper Mississippi > …
18Upper Palaeolithic — /ʌpə pæliəˈlɪθɪk/ (say upuh paleeuh lithik) noun 1. the latest of the three Palaeolithic periods lasting from c. 40 000 BC to about c. 12 000 BC in Europe. –adjective 2. of or relating to this period. Also, Upper Paleolithic …
19Paleolithic — [pā΄lē ə lith′ik] adj. [ PALEO + LITHIC] [sometimes p ] designating or of an Old World cultural period ( c. 2 million c. 10,000 B.C. ) before the Mesolithic, characterized by the use of flint, stone, and bone tools, hunting, fishing, and the… …
20Middle Paleolithic — Bifacial points, engraved ochre and bone tools from the c. 75 80,000 year old M1 M2 phases at Blombos cave. The Paleolithic This box …
