Paleolithic man

noun

1. any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Paleolithic man¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

"I realized by observing the world, that in many ways that's not how we behave. You can go to the poorest township in Africa and see them take wire or a Coke can and fashion it into beautiful toys. As I often say, Paleolithic man with almost nothing made those extraordinary cave paintings."

From Los Angeles Times

"I realized by observing the world that in many ways that's not how we behave. You can go to the poorest township in Africa and see them take wire or a Coke can and fashion it into beautiful toys. As I often say, Paleolithic man with almost nothing made those extraordinary cave paintings."

From Los Angeles Times

In its most recent incarnation, Paleolithic man is the culinary hero, and instead of disobeying God, we modern grain-eaters sin by disobeying the law of evolution.

From Slate

The sport is so elemental that it is one of the few at the Olympics that Paleolithic man would grasp instantly.

From New York Times

Do we mean by the phrase that "human nature does not change" that the feelings of the paleolithic man who ate the bodies of his enemies and of his own children are the same as those of a Herbert Spencer, or even of the modern New Yorker who catches his subway train to business in the morning?

From Project Gutenberg