neotechnicadj.

1879 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 8 343 They are now, as ever, a bone and stone-using people, reproducing the same ingenious arts which characterised the neotechnic labours of the Cro-Magnon and Mentone workmen of Europe's reindeer or mammoth periods.

1904 P. Geddes City Devel. xxv. 175/1 Must we not..recognise that the formerly less prominent industrial peoples..are passing more quickly than we into the ‘Neotechnic’ stage?

1915 P. Geddes Cities in Evol. iv. 64 Simply substituting -technic for -lithic, we may distinguish the earlier and ruder elements of the Industrial Age as Paleotechnic, the newer and still often incipient elements disengaging themselves from these as Neotechnic.

1934 L. Mumford Technics & Civilization iii. 109 In defining the paleotechnic and neotechnic phases, he [sc. Prof. Geddes]..neglected the important period of preparation, when all the key inventions were either invented or foreshadowed.

1967 Punch 27 Sept. 451/1 The country would be rejigged to meet the challenge of the neotechnic revolution.

1995 Amer. Scientist July 383/3 Finally, the third [phase], termed the neotechnic, which began circa 1880, saw transport revolutionized by the use of electricity and petroleum.