1. (

• Paleolithic_Age ,
• Paleolithic ,
• Palaeolithic

) second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,000 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC ;

1. (

• paleolithic ,
• palaeolithic

) of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic); "paleolithic artifacts" ;