Both Uses of
Paleolithic
in
Childhood's End
- The huge and silent shadows driving across the stars, more miles above his head than he dared to guess, were as far beyond his little Columbus as it surpassed the log canoes of paleolithic man.†
Chpt 1 *
- They walked for a few metres past a beautiful model of Paris, past art-treasures from a dozen centuries grouped incongruously together, past modem calculating machines and paleolithic axes, past television receivers and Hero of Alexandra's steam-turbine.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(Paleolithic) early stage of the Stone Age, beginning about 500,000 to 750,000 years ago when early humans made chipped-stone tools