How to Use Stone Age in a Sentence

Stone Age

noun

• The area is close to chalk bedrock, so flint would have been available to Stone Age tool makers.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
• Gone from our tables are the roasted hedgehogs of Stone Age Britain and the flamingo tongues of ancient Rome.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• In 2010, Jericho celebrated being the oldest walled city in the world, dating back to the modern Stone Age.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 17 Sep. 2023
• The oldest specimen in the lab is an 8,000-year-old brain from Stone Age Sweden, which was mounted on a spike before burial in a lakebed.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
• And last year, for the first time in decades, the town revived its annual festival, now called the Dinosaur Stone Age Stampede, with food, games, and music.
  — Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Lions loomed large in the psyche of Stone Age hominins, who painted them on cave walls and carved their likenesses into bone and ivory ornaments.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• But the carbon-14 dating determined they were made during the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age, when hunter-gatherer lifestyles were still prevalent.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• Archaeologists also found five Stone Age workshops where different types of rock were shaped into tools, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• Denmark’s Jutland Heath, a vast, sprawling expanse of near-barren land depleted by Stone Age farmers, where only a rolling rug of mauve-brown heather survives its sandy soil.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• The Neolithic period, which is also called the New Stone Age, is one of the most important transitions in human society.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
• Quintessentially Scottish coastlines, whiskey distilleries, and Stone Age remains are just a ferry ride away.
  — Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
• Additionally, the authors say that this discovery challenges the view that Stone Age humans were nomadic.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
• The site had an unusually high abundance of fish compared to other Stone Age sites, suggesting that people captured more fish as waterholes shrank during the dry season.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
• Painting this clearer picture of Stone Age people, the team says, was only possible by examining chewing gum.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• The area is an archaeological treasure trove, with evidence of activity by humans and our early ancestors spanning from the Early Stone Age to nearly modern times.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2023
• Globally, unmapped Stone Age villages have been erased by freeways, airports, and industrial agriculture.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• The area is close to chalk bedrock, so flint would have been available to Stone Age tool makers.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
• Gone from our tables are the roasted hedgehogs of Stone Age Britain and the flamingo tongues of ancient Rome.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• In 2010, Jericho celebrated being the oldest walled city in the world, dating back to the modern Stone Age.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 17 Sep. 2023
• The oldest specimen in the lab is an 8,000-year-old brain from Stone Age Sweden, which was mounted on a spike before burial in a lakebed.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
• And last year, for the first time in decades, the town revived its annual festival, now called the Dinosaur Stone Age Stampede, with food, games, and music.
  — Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Lions loomed large in the psyche of Stone Age hominins, who painted them on cave walls and carved their likenesses into bone and ivory ornaments.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• But the carbon-14 dating determined they were made during the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age, when hunter-gatherer lifestyles were still prevalent.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• Archaeologists also found five Stone Age workshops where different types of rock were shaped into tools, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• Denmark’s Jutland Heath, a vast, sprawling expanse of near-barren land depleted by Stone Age farmers, where only a rolling rug of mauve-brown heather survives its sandy soil.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• The Neolithic period, which is also called the New Stone Age, is one of the most important transitions in human society.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
• Quintessentially Scottish coastlines, whiskey distilleries, and Stone Age remains are just a ferry ride away.
  — Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
• Additionally, the authors say that this discovery challenges the view that Stone Age humans were nomadic.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
• The site had an unusually high abundance of fish compared to other Stone Age sites, suggesting that people captured more fish as waterholes shrank during the dry season.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
• Painting this clearer picture of Stone Age people, the team says, was only possible by examining chewing gum.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024