Neolithic
['niə'lɪθɪk]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic); 'evidence of neolithic settlements' .
Editor: Moore--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone.
Edited by Constantine
Definition
adj. applied to the more recent implements of the stone age—opp. to Pal鎜lithic.
Edited by Karl
Examples
- The Neolithic men of Europe were white men ancestral to the modern Europeans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At Cnossos there are Neolithic remains as old or older than any of the pre-dynastic remains of Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The writer is, however, disposed to give the Neolithic men credit for having discovered milking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neolithic man was nomadic in a different spirit from the mere daylight drift after food of the primordial hunter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Irish Neolithic remains are particularly rich in gold. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is not certain whether the Neolithic pastoral people who left those remains were the direct ancestors of the later Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These people reached the island in Neolithic times; no Pal?olithic remains have been found in Ireland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Neolithic man had domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Before the coming of bronze there is no evidence of stools or tables; the Neolithic people probably squatted on their clay floors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Reindeer men were a horse-people, but the Neolithic Aryans were a cow-people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They followed the settled folk from Neolithic phase to Bronze phase. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In addition to these early Neolithic tribes, there must have been various varieties of still more primitive forest folk in Africa and in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nearly everywhere that Neolithic culture went, there went a disposition to associate the sun and the serpent in decoration and worship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As peoples develop towards nomadism, they seem to lose even such primitive religion and magic as their Neolithic ancestors professed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Theresa