Definition of Middle Paleolithic

1. Noun. The time period of Neanderthal man; ended about 35,000 years BC.

Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Group relationships: Palaeolithic, Paleolithic, Paleolithic Age

Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Paleolithic

Middle East
Middle Eastern
Middle Easterner
Middle England
Middle Englander
Middle English
Middle French
Middle Greek
Middle High German
Middle Irish
Middle Kingdom
Middle Korean
Middle Latin
Middle Low German
Middle Norwegian
Middle Paleolithic (current term)
Middle Persian
Middle Watut
Middle Welsh
Middle West
Middlesbrough
Middleton
Mideast
Midgard
Midi-Pyrenees
Midi-Pyrénées
Midianite
Midianites

Literary usage of Middle Paleolithic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"9 on Headers' Service Card these simple flake industries of Middle Paleolithic type persisted in Egypt long after compound tools, indicated by the presence ..."

2. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"... the Middle Paleolithic covers the whole of the last glaciation and is co-extensive with the ..."

3. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1910)
"II. Second Period : Paleozoic Age. Primary Epoch. (Age of Fishes and Tree-Ferns.) 4. Older paleolithic age or Silurian epoch. 5. Middle paleolithic ago , ..."

4. The Social History of the Western World, an Outline Syllabus by Harry Elmer Barnes (1921)
"(2) Mousterian or "middle paleolithic." (3) Aurignacian, Solutrean and Magdalenian or "upper paleolithic. ..."

5. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"Recent discoveries have thrown valuable light on the upper middle Paleolithic age, the Age of Reindeer. They come from caves in the Pyrenees mountains near ..."

6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1903)
"... fallen Palaeolithic.1 gravel from top of cliff ... ... 120 ... — Early Palaeolithic. Hyde Common Pit 230 ... 150 Middle'Paleolithic. ..."

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