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Neolithic vs Palaeolithic - What's the difference?

neolithic | palaeolithic |

As adjectives the difference between neolithic and palaeolithic

is that neolithic is of or relating to the New Stone Age while palaeolithic is alternative case form of Paleolithic.

As a proper noun Neolithic

is the New Stone Age, from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.

neolithic

English

(wikipedia Neolithic)

Adjective

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  • Of or relating to the New Stone Age.
  • * 2001 , Duncan J. Melville, Tokens: the origin of mathematics
    • 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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    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The New Stone Age, from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.

    • Synonyms

    * New Stone Age

    Derived terms

    * Neolithic Revolution

    Related terms

    * lith * Mesolithic * Paleolithic

    palaeolithic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (Paleolithic)