New Stone Age
Americannoun
noun
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Whether we march together toward the Trans-human Singularity, or backwards to a New Stone Age, wood fires will come with us.
From Time • Jan. 30, 2013
The New Stone Age, or Neolithic Age, began about 8000 B.C. and ended as early as 3000 B.C. in some areas.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
During the New Stone Age, farming peoples worshiped the many gods and goddesses who they believed had power over the rain, wind, and other forces of nature.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Ancient Egyptian skulls resemble those in 17th-Century London plague pits, in New Stone Age box graves of Switzerland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This is misleading, as the more advanced of these accomplishments appear only late in the New Stone Age.
From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph
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