Palaeolithic man

British  

noun

1. any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic

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Example Sentences

I do not mean that the art is superior, but the complex life represented on the picture-message, and the intelligence with which it is represented, are beyond anything that we know of Palaeolithic man.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph

It is doubtful whether Palaeolithic man has left any descendants.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

So Palaeolithic man may have ridden his simple bicycle of chipped flint in pursuit of his exogamous affinity.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Palaeolithic man appeared in Europe with the arctic mammalia, lived in Europe with them, and in all human probability retreated to the north-east along with them.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

No satisfactory evidence has been produced that Palaeolithic man occupied Cornwall, but the traces of Neolithic man at the stage when he became acquainted with the use of bronze are abundant.

From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)