adj
Neolithic
nee-uh-LIHTH-ihk
adj
1
Relating to the New Stone Age, the late prehistoric period marked by the rise of farming and polished stone tools.
"Archaeologists uncovered a neolithic settlement with early farming tools."
noun
1
The New Stone Age period itself, or a person who lived during it.
"The exhibit traces human development from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age."
How to Use Neolithic
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe era when humans started farming, building settlements, and using more refined stone tools, roughly 8500 to 4500 BCE.
Common pairings
the Neolithic era
Neolithic revolution
Neolithic tools
Word Forms
Neolithics plural
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Etymology
Coined in 1865 by British scholar John Lubbock from neo- ("new") + -lithic ("of stone"), to distinguish the later, farming-based Stone Age from the earlier Paleolithic.