Definitions
of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic)
Word origin
From neo- + -lithic. Coined by English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.
Used in a sentence
“Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory”
“Meronyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B”
“... I was fascinated by a pair of stories about a Neolithic girl who wrote the first letter, and invented the first alphabet.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“New Stone Age”9 letters
02“Late Stone Age”9 letters
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