1. palaeolithic - Noun
2. palaeolithic - Adjective
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
of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)
Source: WordNetWe have become like the most primitive Palaeolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information. Marshall McLuhan
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. Kevin Rudd
paleolithic artifacts Source: Internet
And a very long time must have elapsed between the formation of the lower and upper Palaeolithic beds in that cave." Source: Internet
Bahn, Paul, The Penguin Archaeology Guide, Penguin, London, pp. 141. ISBN 0-14-051448-1 The period is generally dated from 20,000 BP to about 10,500 BP, having emerged from the Palaeolithic era. Source: Internet
Iberian Late Bronze Age since c. 1300 BC Palaeolithic The Iberian Peninsula has been inhabited for at least 1.2 million years as remains found in the sites in the Atapuerca Mountains demonstrate. Source: Internet