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Paleolith

Pa′le-o-lith

(pā′lē̍-ō̍-lĭth)
,
Noun.
[
Paleo-
+
-lith
.]
(Geol.)
A relic of the Paleolithic era.

Definition 2024


paleolith

paleolith

English

Noun

paleolith (plural paleoliths)

  1. A relic from the Paleolithic era.
    • 1990, George W. Stocking, Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology (page 94)
      A large number of the reported discoveries of paleoliths in Kent had been made in the district surrounding the village of Ightham, some seven miles east of Shoreham, where Prestwich had his country home.