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Old Stone Age

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Old Stone Age

n
(Archaeology) (not now in technical usage) another term for Palaeolithic
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Old′ Stone′ Age`


n.
the Paleolithic period.
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Old Stone Age

The Paleolithic period.
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LAHORE: Birds and their ways have captured human imagination since the Paleolithic Period, when they were depicted in caves.
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Someone from the Paleolithic period. Maybe it would be difficult to communicate verbally, but I would observe his/her behaviour
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The field survey covered mountainous territory, where the expeditionary team discovered sites that date back to the Stone Age or Paleolithic period in Al-Kharj province, about 100 thousand years ago.
The sites are dating back to the Paleolithic period about 100,000 years.
Alpha Alpha Cast: Jens Hulten, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Leonor Varela After a Steppe bison hunting expedition 20,000 years ago in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic period goes awry, a young man struggles against the elements to find his way home, all the while developing a friendship with a grey wolf.
The illegal "research" of Armenians in Karabakh, conducted over the past few years, especially in the Azykh Cave, have once again demonstrated the need for a scientific analysis of this site of the Paleolithic period and the artifacts found there as well as bringing them to a broad scientific community.
The features and arrangement of the images along with the prehistoric remains of human colonies that lived here, show that the societies in the Upper Paleolithic period formed organized sanctuaries underground and originated in the Franco-Cantabrian region.
The adventurers can explore the remains of a 70-million-year old sea bed in the desert and step into the lives of early humans who made their way out of Africa to Mleiha during the Paleolithic period 130,000 years ago.