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Neolithic

Neolithic

See also: neolithic

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Neolithic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the New Stone Age.
    • 2001, Duncan J. Melville, Tokens: the origin of mathematics
      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).
    • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:
      ... 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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Neolithic

  1. The New Stone Age, from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.

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neolithic

neolithic

See also: Neolithic

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neolithic (comparative more neolithic, superlative most neolithic)

  1. (informal) hopelessly outdated
    What am I supposed to do with this neolithic piece of machinery?

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