stone agen.

a. Archaeology. The period or stage in the development of human culture which is marked by the exclusive or greatly predominant use of stone as material for weapons and implements, in contradistinction to the later ‘ages’ in which bronze or iron was used. The stone age is divided into the Palaeolithic adj. and n. and Neolithic adj. and n. periods.

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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > prehistoric periods

dark ages1842

Iron Age1845

iron period1847

stone period1849

lithic age1862

Aurignac1863

stone age1864

three ages1866

Palaeolithic1869

Middle Stone Age1870

prehistory1871

stone era1873

Siwalik1877

Neolithic1878

hemera1893

Mesvinian1909

Mesolithic1931

Abbevillian1937

Devensian1968

Creswellian1969

dryas1975

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man (ed. 2) ii. 10 The age of stone in Denmark coincides with the period of the first vegetation, or that of the Scotch fir.]

1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man xii. 343 Long heavy skulls, which differ entirely from those of the stone-age.

1874 A. L. F. Pitt-Rivers Evol. Culture, Princ. Classif. (1906) 14 The Fijians..at the time of their discovery were still in the stone age.

attributive.1878 J. C. Southall Epoch of Mammoth iv. 45 In the Stone-Age lake-stations, pottery (hand-made) is found in abundance.1910 A. C. Haddon Races of Man 20 The Tasmanians..never advanced beyond an early stage of stone-age culture.

b. figurative, esp. as the type of an outmoded or unsophisticated era. Also attributive and as adj.

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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > outmoded era or the stone age

stone age1927

1927 R. Kipling in Maclean's 15 Sept. 52/4 The old lady..was primitive Stone-Age—bless her! She looked on us as a couple of magicians.

1937 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 5 July (1964) 15 The girls who were what we called ‘speeds’ (in our stone-age slang) at sixteen were reduced to anything they could get at the marrying time.

1959 M. Laski Offshore Island iii. 84 I've enjoyed civilization too much to be happy in a new stone age.

1973 R. Thomas If you can't be Good (1974) xvi. 147 Back in the mid-fifties was back in the stone age. It was way before the Pill.

1981 Quarto May 4/2 In the age of computerised type-setting, the technology of the book trade seems more and more stone age.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	stone age
释义	stone agen. a. Archaeology. The period or stage in the development of human culture which is marked by the exclusive or greatly predominant use of stone as material for weapons and implements, in contradistinction to the later ‘ages’ in which bronze or iron was used. The stone age is divided into the Palaeolithic adj. and n. and Neolithic adj. and n. periods. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > prehistoric periods dark ages1842 Iron Age1845 iron period1847 stone period1849 lithic age1862 Aurignac1863 stone age1864 three ages1866 Palaeolithic1869 Middle Stone Age1870 prehistory1871 stone era1873 Siwalik1877 Neolithic1878 hemera1893 Mesvinian1909 Mesolithic1931 Abbevillian1937 Devensian1968 Creswellian1969 dryas1975 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man (ed. 2) ii. 10 The age of stone in Denmark coincides with the period of the first vegetation, or that of the Scotch fir.] 1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man xii. 343 Long heavy skulls, which differ entirely from those of the stone-age. 1874 A. L. F. Pitt-Rivers Evol. Culture, Princ. Classif. (1906) 14 The Fijians..at the time of their discovery were still in the stone age. attributive.1878 J. C. Southall Epoch of Mammoth iv. 45 In the Stone-Age lake-stations, pottery (hand-made) is found in abundance.1910 A. C. Haddon Races of Man 20 The Tasmanians..never advanced beyond an early stage of stone-age culture. b. figurative, esp. as the type of an outmoded or unsophisticated era. Also attributive and as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > outmoded era or the stone age stone age1927 1927 R. Kipling in Maclean's 15 Sept. 52/4 The old lady..was primitive Stone-Age—bless her! She looked on us as a couple of magicians. 1937 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 5 July (1964) 15 The girls who were what we called ‘speeds’ (in our stone-age slang) at sixteen were reduced to anything they could get at the marrying time. 1959 M. Laski Offshore Island iii. 84 I've enjoyed civilization too much to be happy in a new stone age. 1973 R. Thomas If you can't be Good (1974) xvi. 147 Back in the mid-fifties was back in the stone age. It was way before the Pill. 1981 Quarto May 4/2 In the age of computerised type-setting, the technology of the book trade seems more and more stone age. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1864
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