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Stone Age

noun

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

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"Stone Age" Quotes from Famous Books

... had finished, he felt as a Stone Age man might feel in the presence of a brilliant scientist of the thirty-fourth century. If any sign of interest had shown on the peak of the metallic lord, Phobar failed to see it. But he sensed an intolerant sneer of ridicule in Garboreggg, as though the ruler considered these statements ...

— Raiders of the Universes • Donald Wandrei

... self-sacrificing hero, and a bloodthirsty savage. Human nature is at once sublime and horrible, holy and satanic. Apart from the accumulation of knowledge and experience, which are external and precarious acquisitions, there is no proof that we have changed much since the first stone age. ...

— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge

... slaving scenes come back unbidden, and make me start up at dead of night horrified by their vividness. To some this may appear weak and unphilosophical, since it is alleged that the whole human race has passed through the process of development. We may compare cannibalism to the stone age, and the times of slavery to the iron and bronze epochs—slavery is as natural a step in human development ...

— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 • David Livingstone

Words linked to "Stone Age" : period, period of time, prehistory, prehistoric culture, palaeolithic, mesolithic, Mesolithic Age, eolithic, paleolithic, archaeology, Paleolithic Age, neolithic, archeology, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic Age, time period, Eolithic Age