Stone Age

noun

1. the period in the history of humankind, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and marked by the use of stone implements and weapons: subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods.

Stone Age

noun

1. a period in human culture identified by the use of stone implements and usually divided into the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic stages

adjective

1. sometimes not capitals of or relating to this period

   stone-age man

Stone Age

1. The earliest known period of human culture, marked by the use of stone tools.
2. See MesolithicSee Note at Three Age system

Stone Age

1. A period encompassing all of human history, perhaps several million years, before the Bronze Age . In the Stone Age, people learned to make and use stone tools and weapons.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Stone Age¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Then he says, “Fortunately, that was back in the Stone Age.”

From The Daily Beast

The average person is now 20 times less likely to die a violent death than a human in the Stone Age.

From The Daily Beast

But the percentage of humans who died a violent death continued to drop from the Stone Age rate of 10 to 15 percent.

From The Daily Beast

The result is food that often is out of sync with our ancient Stone Age biology and dizzyingly technical and complex.

From The Daily Beast

It is the wars of choice that have decimated entire countries, destroying infrastructure and sending them back to the Stone Age.

From The Daily Beast

A huge float comes along, depicting the stone age and the primitive man, every detail carefully studied from the museums.

From Project Gutenberg

It jutted forth, white and mysterious—a monstrous tenting-ground left over from the Stone Age.

From Project Gutenberg

He had expected words—primitive words, perhaps resembling the click-speech of Earth's stone-age survivals, but words of some sort.

From Project Gutenberg

The skulls show that in the Late Stone Age the human brain was fully developed and that the racial types were fixed.

From Project Gutenberg

Mars looked as remote and changeless as it must have looked in the Stone Age.

From Project Gutenberg