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Neolithic

adjective

Of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic).

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... sentimentalism gushes out, at the end of long journeys, at the novelty of elegance and sophistication. One deifies them then: one gives them a place much larger than they ought to take up in life. How Muene-Motapa would laugh! He, virtually a Neolithic man, never sinks below manly thoughts: his ambitions are never enfeebled by the malady of sentimental love. So when he suffers it is like a man, not like a descendant of ...

— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman

... the climate became warmer, the ice-fronts retreated northward by the shrinking of the glaciers, and therefore the animals, including man, were able to live farther north. The men of that very remote period were "Neolithic," and some of the stone monuments are attributed to them that were formerly called "Druidic." A recent writer asks; with ...

— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson

Words linked to "Neolithic" : Stone Age, time period, period of time, period, New Stone Age