Palaeolithic man

British  

noun

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

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Palaeolithic man

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

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)

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

For proofs of the existance of Palaeolithic man in Egypt, see Mook, Haynes, Pitt-Rivers, Flinders-Petrie, and others, cited at length in the next chapter.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

Palaeolithic man made his implements of any kind of hard and heavy stone, and it is probable that he occasionally selected iron ore for the purpose.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph