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New Stone Age

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New Stone Age
n.
See Neolithic.

New Stone Age
n
(Social Science / Archaeology) (not now in technical use) another term for Neolithic

New Stone Age
See Neolithic.
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Noun1.New Stone Age - latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)New Stone Age - latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
Stone Age - (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements


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There was evidence the uplands had been used for animal grazing in the earlier Neolithic (the New Stone Age 4000-2200BC) period and that people were beginning to cultivate cereals.
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Texas) describes how divination evolved in Chinese society from the New Stone Age in the seventh to second millennia BCE, to the close of the classical period at the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE.
 
 
 
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