paleolithic age

Questions about paleolithic age

What does paleolithic age mean?

paleolithic age means "second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,000 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC".

What is another word for paleolithic age?

Close synonyms include Paleolithic, Palaeolithic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paleolithic age a common word?

paleolithic age is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.