Eolithic
/ˌiːə(ʊ)ˈlɪθɪk
/adjective Archaeology, dated
1Relating to or denoting a period at the beginning of the Stone Age, preceding the Palaeolithic and characterized by the earliest crude stone tools.By 1869 his scheme for European prehistory was fairly well elaborated and included: the Thenasian (for the now obsolete Eolithic), Chellean, Mousterian, Solutrean, Aurignacian, Magdalenian, and Robenhausian.
1.1 (as noun the Eolithic) The Eolithic period.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French éolithique, from Greek ēōs 'dawn' + lithikos (from lithos 'stone').
Rhymes
- non-physically
- non-pictorial
- non-placental
- non placet
- non-planar
- non-planarity
- non-playing
- non plevin
- non-plural
- nonplus
- nonplussed
- nonplusser
- non plus ultra
- non-point source
- non-poisonous
- non-polar
- non-political
- non-polluting
- non-popular
- non-popularity
- non-porous
- non-positive
- non-positive definite
- non possumus
- non-power