| 单词 | new stone age |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNew Stone Age New Stone Age n. (also with lower-case initials) Archaeology the Neolithic period. ΚΠ 1869 Duke of Argyll Primeval Man iv. 59 They [sc. archaeologists] talk of an Old Stone Age (Palæolithic), and of a Newer Stone Age (Neolithic).] 1870 Harper's Mag. May 931/1 Three epochs are traced by M. Reboux; that of the cave bear, or early stone age; the middle stone age, or the reindeer period; and the new stone age, or the period of the dolmens. 1949 A. E. Trueman Geol. & Scenery Eng. & Wales viii. 113 In the case of the Hampshire basin the whole river system has been drowned under the sea, as a result of the lowering of the level of the land or rise of sea-level in relatively recent times (continuing to the New Stone Age). 2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 June 4 The discovery of the Orkney structures could greatly contribute to knowledge of the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, period. < as lemmas |
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