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What does Stone Age mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Stone Age? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (archaeology) A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
  2. (figuratively, informal) Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era.
  3. (figuratively) The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development.
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It originated in the Stone Age when man, trying to find shelter from the superabounding beasts, lived in caves.
Our enemies are the totalitarians who plunged Afghanistan into the Stone Age and who yearn to do the same to America.
In Norway, petroglyphs carved in rock by Stone Age hunters are threatened by air pollution.
In Paleolithic times it was home to Stone Age hunters, who occupied the caves and left their art behind them.
The Dani have remained Stone Age farmers who practice ancestor worship and occasionally engage in tribal warfare.
We're talking one chair lift, a few drag lifts, a bare piste or three with attendant facilities and equipment hire from The Stone Age.

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