An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the cultures of the Old Stone Age, marked by the earliest known chipped stone tools. The period continued from about 750,000 years ago, until the beginning of the Mesolithic Age, about 15,000 years ago.

→ paleo-; lithic, from Gk. lithos "stone."