paleolithic
Early stone tools
Paleolithic means of or relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age, when humans first developed stone tools.
The era spans from roughly 2.5 million years ago to about 10,000 BCE.
In casual use, paleolithic describes anything primitively old or outdated: His views on women are paleolithic.
The paleo diet claims inspiration from this era. (Capitalized Paleolithic is the standard form in scholarly contexts.)
No longer in use
- primitiveIn earliest form
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- backwardToward what's behind
archaic · prehistoric · caveman · dinosaur · obsolete · retrograde · behind the times
outdated
No longer in use
- primitiveIn earliest form
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
backward · archaic · prehistoric · caveman · dinosaur · obsolete · retrograde · behind the times
- Stone Age periods
- prehistorystone tools, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen, Bronze Age
- ancient timesancient, primeval, primitive, primordial, archaic
- Stone Agecave painting, hand ax, handaxes, hand axe, hand axes
- prehistoric humanscaveman, cave dwellers, cave dweller, Neanderthal, Neanderthals
- foragingforaging, harvest, gather, gatherers, forage
paleolithicmodern age
Current historical epoch
modern era · neolithic · bronze age · atomic age · digital age
paleolithicmodern
Of recent times
contemporary · advanced · futuristic · high-tech · present-day
paleolithiccivilized
Socially developed and refined
agricultural · urban · sedentary · industrial · advanced
- Paleolithic dietPre-agricultural food regimen
- Lower PaleolithicEarliest prehistoric tool-making epoch
- Paleolithic artIce-age creative works
- Paleolithic eraEarliest human tool-making period