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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Neolithic  \Ne`o*lith"ic\,  a.  [Neo-  +  -lith  +  -ic.]  (Arch[ae]ol. 
  &  Geol.) 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  or  designating,  an  era  characterized  by 
  late  remains  in  stone. 
 
  The  Neolithic  era  includes  the  latter  half  of  the 
  ``Stone  age;''  the  human  relics  which  belong  to  it  are 
  associated  with  the  remains  of  animals  not  yet  extinct. 
  The  kitchen  middens  of  Denmark,  the  lake  dwellings  of 
  Switzerland,  and  the  stockaded  islands,  or 
  ``crannogs,''  of  the  British  Isles,  belong  to  this  era. 
  --Lubbock. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  neolithic 
  adj  :  of  or  relating  to  the  most  recent  period  of  the  Stone  Age 
  (following  the  mesolithic);  "evidence  of  neolithic 
  settlements" 




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