(a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
(2) Trephination dates from prehistoric neolithic times (10,000-7000 B.C.)
(3) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(4) One population originating in the Yellow River valley, and the other originating, in the Yangtze River valley during the early part of neolithic times (to date 3,000--7,000).
(5) Kids can roll their sleeves up and dig for skeletons, dress up as Romans, handle neolithic artefacts, go metal detecting, learn medieval royal etiquette, take a lesson in stone-age survival skills, and take part in period-focused workshops.
(6) The bones are compared for two Neolithic Orkney tribes.
(7) The Neolithic in both areas is less clearly associated with the northern or southern components and may represent the form of their undifferentiated precursors.
(8) After admiring the cafe at the visitor centre, and the Neolithic houses, I walked together with Pitts, Heather Sebire (English Heritage's property curator), and a fellow from the National Lottery Heritage Fund up the sealed-off stretch of road to the stones themselves.
(9) "We need to turn the map of Britain upside down when we consider the Neolithic and shrug off our south-centric attitudes," says Card, now Brodgar's director of excavations.
(10) "We see Neolithic remains after they have been bleached out and eroded," says Edmonds.
(11) When I mentioned that I'd done my Neolithic wondering in Orkney to Pitts at Stonehenge he said: "Well, that's quite a different sort of experience."
(12) Rather than it being assumed, said Jaques, that the prehistoric ritual landscape was built by Neolithic people arriving from the continent to emptiness, “it looks as though they are meeting with a long-lasting Mesolithic community ... therefore Stonehenge becomes a much more multi-cultural place.
(13) The circle is 33 metres across and is probably from the late Neolithic or early bronze age; excavations carried out in the 1930s found graves in a central cairn.
(14) It has been shown by archaeologists that, in some areas, early Neolithics lived side by side at overlapping dates with well developed Mesolithics.
(15) It could have taken those Neolithic stone-draggers nearly 500 years to get them to Stonehenge , but that’s pretty improbable in my view.
(16) Dozens of pits were dug over the ridge, an area the size of five football pitches, and every one revealed items with a Neolithic background.
(17) At 4.43am on 21 June, when the sun rises above the rolling plains of Wiltshire and, cloud willing, its rays come fingering their way through the grass to touch the mighty sarsens and bluestones of the Henge, it will be a moment of joy for all concerned: the battles of the past between druids, crusties, conservators, archaeologists, seers and sightseers are over – thousands of them will be there, ready to celebrate the dawn of a new age for the Neolithic.
(18) It is suggested that European fallow deer experienced a genetic bottleneck during a period of captivity in Mesolithic or Neolithic times.
(19) Added to that there are two funny (no, quite funny) robots, See Threepio (Anthony Daniels) and Artoo-Detoo (Kenny Baker), an ace pilot (Harrison Ford) who represents our disbelief by proving a sceptic, an apeman or "walking carpet" (Peter Mayhew) who looks as if he's come straight out of a Neolithic pantomime, and an assortment of villains so unterrifying that it looks as if you'd only have to pinch them to produce a fit of giggles (but who would dare do any such thing to Peter Cushing?).
(20) An investigation of three groups from ancient populations (Neolithic, Early Middle Ages, Middle Ages) was performed on 273 adult skeletons.
Paleolithic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, recent investigations suggest the converse - that a remarkable degree of cultural and biological continuity exists among indigenous Nubian groups, perhaps as far back as the Paleolithic.
(2) A common feature of Paleolithic art forms is the salience of parts, and the treatment of parts indicates analytic and synthetic (recombinative) abilities.
(3) Interdisciplinary study of a Paleolithic site at Budiño, Louro Valley (province of Pontevedra), Spain, shows the presence of various tool-making techniques and types of tools in a single undisturbed site complex found in situ within Middle Würm colluvial deposits.
(4) Compared to modern nutrition, paleolithic nutrition is richer in animal protein, vitamins, calcium, potassium and fibre, and poorer in fat and sodium.
(5) I argue that most Upper Paleolithic depictions directly represent generalized mental images of their animal subjects rather than percepts or recollected scenes from life and that these images, in turn, are representations of concepts at the basic level of categorization.
(6) The result of the research revealed that Shanidar IV flowers possess considerable therapeutic effects with marked medical activity, which could be an intentional reason for the selection of the flowers in Middle Paleolithic Shanidar Neanderthals.
(7) The F complex contains Upper Paleolithic lithic elements, and the new hominid specimen from this complex appears to exhibit features similar to other early modern H. sapiens in southcentral Europe.
(8) This shift from a paleolithic diet to a modern diet caused nutritional risks, partly responsible for the dramatic increase in modern chronic diseases of heart, circulation and so on.
(9) Recent studies of teeth from prehistoric children have reported a localized, roughly circular patch of deficient enamel on the labial aspect of the primary canine, which reaches its highest prevalence in the Upper Paleolithic of Europe.
(10) Trends for tooth size over this period indicate that (1) human evolution does not stop with the appearance of "anatomically modern Homo sapiens," (2) changes in tooth size fluctuate with increases in the efficiency and complexity of cultural systems, and (3) the Early Upper Paleolithic sample should be considered transitional between Wurm II European Neanderthals and later Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic groups.
(11) Besides providing evidence for a greater antiquity of dwarfism than previously known, the fact that this individual reached late adolescence attests to tolerance of Upper Paleolithic groups for severely abnormal individuals and their ability to support members who were of limited economic value to the social group.
(12) The anti-potato crusader Self-proclaimed “world’s leading expert on paleolithic diets” Colorado State professor Dr Loren Cordain is widely acknowledged as the founder of the Paleo movement, and probably the most vociferous anti-potato crusader on the planet.
(13) Hyperfiltration appears to recapitulate the presumed renal hemodynamic response to the relatively high level of episodic meat consumption by paleolithic hunter-gatherers.
(14) The analysis of haplotypes, both with markers closely linked to the CF gene and with intragenic markers, suggests that the delta F508 mutation was not spread by the Indo-European invasions but was already present in Europe more than 10,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic period.
(15) In that paleolithic period when we gathered round the TV to watch Top of the Pops, my mum would say, "Christ, is it a boy or a girl?"
(16) Eggs feature prominently in the paleolithic diet as a nutritious food that stone age man or woman would have gobbled down if they had been lucky enough to find a nest.
(17) If the condition results from bilateral traumatic avulsion, it is probably the result of excessive muscular stress on the proximal femur and provides further evidence of hardship of life in Paleolithic populations and of the ability of these people to survive debilitating trauma.
(18) The idea, also called the caveman, hunter-gatherer or paleolithic diet, has been around for decades and is regularly recycled - as it was in various newspapers earlier this week after the regime was discussed at a meeting of the British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine.
(19) He says there is increasing evidence that a Paleolithic diet can prevent and treat many common western diseases.
(20) This pathology is quite common in available samples of Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic children and a cadaver sample of recent Calcuttans, affecting 44% to 70% of individuals.