Neolithic

See also: neolithic

English

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From neo- +‎ -lithicCategory:English terms prefixed with neo-#LITHICCategory:English terms suffixed with -lithic#NEOLITHIC. Coined by English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, in 1865Category:English terms coined by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury#NEOLITHICCategory:English coinages#NEOLITHIC as a refinement of the three-age system.

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NeolithicCategory:English lemmas#NEOLITHICCategory:English proper nouns#NEOLITHICCategory:English uncountable nouns#NEOLITHICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NEOLITHICCategory:Pages with entries#NEOLITHICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#NEOLITHIC

  1. The period of prehistory from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.
    Synonym: New Stone Age
    Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory
    Meronyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
    Comeronyms: Old Stone Age, PaleolithicCategory:English links with manual fragments#NEOLITHIC

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  1. Of or relating to the New Stone Age.
    Alternative form: neolithic
    • 2001, Duncan J. Melville, “Tokens: the origin of mathematics”, in Mesopotamian Mathematics‎, archived from the original on 6 February 2007:
      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).
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    • 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 (plural Neolithics)Category:English lemmas#NEOLITHICCategory:English nouns#NEOLITHICCategory:English countable nouns#NEOLITHICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NEOLITHICCategory:Pages with entries#NEOLITHICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#NEOLITHIC

  1. A person who lived during the New Stone Age.

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