Neolithic
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- noun
- /niˈɑːlɪθɪk/
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neolítico
- The monuments in each complex belong to a range of time, from the Neolithic, which began in Ireland about 4000 B.C., to the Iron Age, around 600 B.C. to A.D. 500.
- dating from the Neolithic
- Neolithic to historical times
Examples
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Archaeologists do know a lot more now than they did at the time of Mellaart's discovery about other Anatolian settlements dating from the Neolithic.
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Archaeologists find deposits of discarded materials—scrap stone, flints, and potsherds—in the rubbish dumps of the Neolithic.
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If M269 came to Europe after the Neolithic, then why is it more common in the West than in the East?
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Rites of passage such as birth, marriage, and death were especially important during the Neolithic.
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Rowan's work focuses on the development of complex society during the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China.
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Higham hopes these shells will yield radiocarbon dates from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
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"We're developing the best survey yet of the invisible landscape, and what we have found suggests a much more varied land use in the Neolithic than we imagined," Gaffney says.
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Recent archaeological work has uncovered evidence that people used these rocky hobbles as far back as the Neolithic—7,000 years ago.
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Brian F. Byrd, an archaeologist with the Far Western Anthropological Research Group in Davis, California, has noted that during the Neolithic there was a general shift in the southern Levant toward greater autonomy and complexity at the household level.
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Farming techniques developed significantly during the Neolithic period, changing how people lived.
Synonyms
A time when people begin to farm and make polished stone tools
A later part of the Stone Age when people begin farming and make polished stone tools
Compounds
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Morphology
Neolithic = lithic (semi-transparent) = neo + lith + ic
The form clearly splits into 'neo-' (new) + 'lithic' (stone-related), but these combining forms are not everyday words for a B1 learner, so the meaning may not be immediately derivable.
Etymology
Neolithic comes from Greek parts neo- and -lithic, which mean 'new' and 'stone'. So the Neolithic is the 'New Stone' age, the time when people started farming, keeping animals, and making better, polished stone tools.