Definitions for stone age
stone age

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Stone Agenoun

   (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Stone Agenoun

   A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.

2. Stone Agenoun

   Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era.

3. Stone Agenoun

   The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development.

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1. Stone Age

   The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with the advent of metalworking. Though some simple metalworking of malleable metals, particularly the use of gold and copper for purposes of ornamentation, was known in the Stone Age, it is the melting and smelting of copper that marks the end of the Stone Age. In Western Asia, this occurred by about 3,000 BC, when bronze became widespread. The term Bronze Age is used to describe the period that followed the Stone Age, as well as to describe cultures that had developed techniques and technologies for working copper alloys (bronze: originally copper and arsenic, later copper and tin) into tools, supplanting stone in many uses. Stone Age artifacts that have been discovered include tools used by modern humans, by their predecessor species in the genus Homo, and possibly by the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Bone tools have been discovered that were used during this period as well but these are rarely preserved in the archaeological record. The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use. The Stone Age is the first period in the three-age system frequently used in archaeology to divide the timeline of human technological prehistory into functional periods, with the next two being the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, respectively. The Stone Age is also commonly divided into three distinct periods: the earliest and most primitive being the Paleolithic era; a transitional period with finer tools known as the Mesolithic era; and the final stage known as the Neolithic era. Neolithic peoples were the first to transition away from hunter-gatherer societies into the settled lifestyle of inhabiting towns and villages as agriculture became widespread. In the chronology of prehistory, the Neolithic era usually overlaps with the Chalcolithic ("Copper") era preceding the Bronze Age.

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1. stone age

   The Stone Age is a prehistoric period during which humans primarily used tools and weapons made of stone. It is divided into three stages: the Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age), the Mesolithic Period (Middle Stone Age), and the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age). During this era, early humans developed essential behaviors and technologies such as hunting and gathering, fire usage, language, and arts. The Stone Age period dates from the first use of stone tools by hominins nearly 3.3 million years ago, to the end of the last Ice Age around 12,000 years ago, and is followed by the Bronze Age.

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1. Stone Age

   The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with a sharp edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4500 BC and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking. Stone Age artifacts include tools used by humans and by their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Bone tools were used during this period as well, but are more rarely preserved in the archaeological record. The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use. The Stone Age is the first of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: ⁕The Stone Age ⁕The Bronze Age ⁕The Iron Age

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Stone Age

   the name given to that period in the history of civilisation when the weapons of war and the chase and the implements of industry were made of stone, prior to employment for these purposes of bronze, characteristic of the age succeeding.

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1. Stone Age

   1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca. 1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaurs. Sometimes used for the entire period up to 1960--61 (see Iron Age); however, it is funnier and more descriptive to characterize the latter period in terms of a ‘Bronze Age’ era of transistor-logic, pre-ferrite-core machines with drum or CRT mass storage (as opposed to just mercury delay lines and/or relays). See also Iron Age. How things weren't in the Stone Age.(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-07-18. The previous cartoon was 76-03-14:5-8.) 2. More generally, a pejorative for any crufty, ancient piece of hardware or software technology. Note that this is used even by people who were there for the Stone Age (sense 1).

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stone age in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stone age in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of stone age in a Sentence

1. R. D. Laing:

   From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

2. Ben Wood:

   Unveiling a product ahead of rivals is an important milestone, it feels like we're in the Stone Age when it comes to products with flexible screens. We're seeing the first very tentative steps toward the implementation of a technology that may seem to be a solution looking for a problem now, but is likely to become a pillar of designs of consumer electronic devices in the future.

3. Michel Serres:

   Mining needs a revolution to avoid retention or employment issues, working with stone-age technologies is not sexy for technicians or engineers coming out of school.

4. Maxime Aubert:

   It is from this area that Stone Age humans departed by boat to cross Island South Asia to reach the mainland of Papua and Australia( the first successful major maritime voyage), stone Age humans were Stone Age humans, and now we know( Stone Age humans) had advanced medical knowledge.

5. Luckily Ahlam:

   It is now on the government and on the international community to focus on this. How to get these captives back. It's inconceivable that in the 21st century something like this is happening as if we were living in the Stone Age.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=stone age
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stone_Age
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=stone age
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#StoneAge
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#StoneAge