Palaeolithic man

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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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Palaeolithic man

For an excellent and critical summary of the latest researches on Palaeolithic man up till the end of the Aurignacian period, see Duckworth, "Prehistoric Man," Cambridge, 1912.

From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell

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 Joseph McCabe

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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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 Joseph McCabe