Palaeolithic man

noun

1. any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic

Example Sentences

No satisfactory evidence has been produced that Palaeolithic man occupied Cornwall, but the traces of Neolithic man at the stage when he became acquainted with the use of bronze are abundant.

From Project Gutenberg

Next, with regard to the hand, Mr. Wallace says, that it "contains latent capacities which are unused by savages, and must have been even less used by palaeolithic man and his still ruder predecessors."

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It appears to me that if Mr. Wallace had endeavoured to imitate the manufactures that were practised by "palaeolithic man," he would have found the very best of reasons for cancelling his statement.

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If they are truly phonetic, then we must suppose that palaeolithic man not only invented an alphabetic writing system, but did this right off by intuition, as it were, without any previous knowledge of letters.

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Lurking in the dark along the passageway is a Palaeolithic man with a querulous expression on his face.

From The Guardian