Lower Palaeolithic

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noun

the earliest of the three sections of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 3 million years ago and ending about 70 000 bc with the emergence of Neanderthal man

adjective

of or relating to this period

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Words nearby Lower Palaeolithic

Lower Michigan, lower mordent, lowermost, lower motor neuron, lower one's sights, Lower Palaeolithic, lower regions, Lower Rhine, Lower Saxony, lower school, Lower Slobbovia

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How to use Lower Palaeolithic in a sentence

Dossi initially was listed in critical condition with wounds to his arm and lower back.
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Since then, the rising gap between the rich and middle- and lower-income families has risen to the fore.
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I learned that he was working and living in the Lower East Side, delivering orders for an Italian restaurant and raising two kids.
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On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
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First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
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There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.
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It depends upon the fact that bile acids lower surface tension.
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The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.
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