paleolithic
IPA: peɪɫiʌɫˈɪθɪk
Root Word: Paleolithic
noun
- A period that lasted from two and a half million years ago to 10,000 BC; the Old Stone Age.
adjective
- Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age).
- (informal) Extremely outdated.
- Alternative letter-case form of Paleolithic [Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age).]
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Examples of "paleolithic" in Sentences
- The term paleolithic diet refers to the contents of our stone age ancestors 'diets.
- Unless, of course, they have those Dollar Store earphones blasting the beat of their paleolithic music.
- I do have fond memories of all the trippy Kroft brothers productions, as well as “Korg: 70,000 BC,” which was a kind of paleolithic Waltons.
- With our new historical and global overview, we can see the full implications of the homosocial patterns that artists recorded from the paleolithic to the modern.
- Richard Nikoley of Free the Animal (a blog about paleolithic diet and exercise) writes that he has been showering without soap or shampoo for the past six months.
- Several followers of the lifestyle took up the practice after researching health concerns online and discovering descriptions of so-called paleolithic diets and exercise programs followed by people around the country and in Europe.
- Particularly in societies where women are little more than property, sexual favors tend to be for sale or trade – bad news when you are a Neolithic clan in Polynesia or a paleolithic tribe in Australia and a shipload of European sailors arrive bearing metal tools, trinkets, and several strains of syphilis.
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