neolithic
part of speech
adjective (Neolithic); noun (the Neolithic)
meaning for a pupil
Belonging to the New Stone Age, the last part of the Stone Age, when people began farming, keeping animals, making pottery and polished stone tools, and living in villages; in Britain about 4000 to 2500 BC. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons, the Neolithic is when Stonehenge's first stages and Skara Brae in Orkney were built. In the Just So Stories, Taffy and her father Tegumai Bopsulai are «Neolithic» people (Kipling says so), living by a river and inventing writing — though really writing was invented much later, in Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3200 BC. That is one of Kipling's made-up facts. Phrases: «Neolithic farmers», «Neolithic Age».
examples
- Neolithic people grew wheat and kept sheep. tree →
- Skara Brae is a Neolithic village in Orkney. tree →
- We made Neolithic pots out of clay at school. tree →
- Kipling calls Tegumai a Neolithic man. tree →
- Neolithic tools were polished stone axes. tree →
- The first stage of Stonehenge was built in Neolithic times. tree →
- Real writing came after the Neolithic. tree →
note
Usually with a capital N. «Neo-» means new, «-lithic» means stone: New Stone Age. Order: Palaeolithic (Old), Mesolithic (Middle), Neolithic (New) Stone Age, then the Bronze Age.
Trees and pragmatics
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