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neolithic
/ˌni.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/
adj 3name 1noun 1
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4ADJ.
archaeological
NEOLITHIC + NOUN
b, culture, girl, india, period, pre-pottery, site
PREP.
about, in
ADV.
also
Definitions
name
1
The period of prehistory from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.
Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory
Meronyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
adj
1
Of or relating to the New Stone Age.
Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, "were part and parcel of the Neolithic phenomenon; that is, the so-called agricultural revolution." (Before Writing 41).
... I was fascinated by a pair of stories about a Neolithic girl who wrote the first letter, and invented the first alphabet.
noun
1
A person who lived during the New Stone Age.
For the Neolithics, the stone was flint, and it's still impressive to see what they were able to achieve with it.
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Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory
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Meronyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
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Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, "were pa
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... I was fascinated by a pair of stories about a Neolithic girl who wrote the first letter, and invented the first alphabet.
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For the Neolithics, the stone was flint, and it's still impressive to see what they were able to achieve with it.
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With this thought in his mind, Challenger gave a contemptuous and condescending consent to the proposal that he should grace with his presence a proceeding which was, in his opinion, more fitted to th
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