New Stone Age
- noun
- /nuː stoʊn eɪdʒ/
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Edad de Piedra Nueva
- The transition to the New Stone Age brought significant changes in how communities interacted with the environment, particularly through agriculture.
Examples
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During the New Stone Age, humans developed polished stone tools that greatly improved their ability to farm and hunt.
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Probably millions in the southern hemisphere are managing to adapt to this new Stone Age.
Fiction book (1990) -
Archaeological findings suggest that the New Stone Age was a period of social transformation, with the establishment of permanent settlements.
Synonyms
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The latest part of the Stone Age when people begin farming, keep animals, and make polished stone tools
A time when people begin to farm and make polished stone tools
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'new' (more recent), 'stone' (rock material) and 'age' (a historical period), so a learner who knows those words can infer it refers to a later/more recent phase of the Stone Age. This is a literal, cross-linguistically common label (Neolithic = 'new stone') rather than an idiom, so its meaning is readily derivable from the constituents for a B1 learner.
Etymology
New Stone Age comes from putting New with Stone Age to give a clear picture: a 'new' time within the old Stone Age when people began 'farming', making pottery and polishing stone tools while living in villages. That's why the name means the 'later part' of the Stone Age when agriculture and settled life began.