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Archaeolithic

Archaeolithic adjective: of, from, or relating to the earliest Stone Age; applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic.

Adjective

Archaeolithic (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or relating to the earliest Stone Age; applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic.
    • Archaeolithic industry
    • Archaeolithic Period

Origin of Archaeolithic

From archaeo- + -lithic.

Questions about Archaeolithic

What does Archaeolithic mean?
Archaeolithic means of, from, or relating to the earliest Stone Age; applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic.
What part of speech is Archaeolithic?
Archaeolithic is an adjective.

Words near Archaeolithic in the dictionary

  1. archaeolemurid
  2. archaeolemurids
  3. archaeolinguistics
  4. archaeolipid
  5. archaeolipids
  6. Archaeolithic
  7. archaeologer
  8. archaeologers
  9. archaeologian
  10. archaeologians
  11. archaeologic

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