palaeolithpaleolithn.
/ˈpalɪəlɪθ/, /ˈpeɪlɪəlɪθ/, U.S. /ˈpeɪliəˌlɪθ/ Archaeology.
A stone artefact of Palaeolithic date.
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palaeolith1879
Palaeolithic1888
1879 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Paleolith, a relic of the paleolithic era.
1880 H. C. Lewis in Science 16 Oct. 193/1 In shape, in size, in workmanship, and in material the implements here found are quite different from those used by the Red Indian. These ‘palæoliths’ are imbedded at various depths in undisturbed Trenton gravel.
1895 Folk-Lore Mar. 76 From underground palæolith to exquisitely-shaped barbed arrow-head.
1920 Brit. Mus. Return 59 Seven palæoliths from gravel at Botwell, Middlesex.
1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles i. 19 Recent large-scale gravel workings..have produced practically no palaeoliths at all.
1992 Current Anthropol. 33 278/2 A third cranial piece..is ‘found’ by Dawson; also elephant molar and a palaeolith.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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