Epipaleolithic

[ep-uh-pey-lee-uh-lith-ik, -pal-ee-]

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of the human cultures existing at the end of the Paleolithic and the beginnings of the Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age.

Origin of Epipaleolithic

First recorded in 1920–25; epi- + Paleolithic

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