Neolithic

Definition

Of or relating to the New Stone Age.

Etymology

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.

Example Sentences

• "Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, "were part and parcel of the Neolithic phenomenon; that is, the so-called agricultural revolution." (Before Writing 41)."
• "... I was fascinated by a pair of stories about a Neolithic girl who wrote the first letter, and invented the first alphabet."