paleolith

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

paleo- +‎ -lith

Noun[edit]

paleolith (plural paleoliths)

  1. A relic from the Paleolithic era.
    • 1990, George W. Stocking, Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology, page 94:
      A large number of the reported discoveries of paleoliths in Kent had been made in the district surrounding the village of Ightham, some seven miles east of Shoreham, where Prestwich had his country home.