NEOLITHIC


Meaning of NEOLITHIC in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

period

Wells, in particular, experienced successive occupation probably from as far back as the Neolithic period .

The bull, and in particular the head and hems of the bull, became especially important in the Neolithic period .

For example, a site may consist largely of a number of postholes, all dating to the Neolithic period .

Not everyone accepts the idea of the Neolithic period as woman-centered.

Possibly that reverence for horned mountains extends back to the Neolithic period .

Trees embodied the Goddess throughout the Neolithic period and later.

The lack of evidence of violence in the Neolithic period is so complete it becomes almost hard to believe.

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Glastonbury Tor and Avebury Where later societies put great resources into fortification the Neolithic people built monuments.

However, Paleolithic and Neolithic art often emphasized the buttocks, sometimes exaggerating them to a suggestion of hills or mountains.

Just as dramatically, radiocarbon dating has shown that the Neolithic was introduced to Britain at least 1500 years earlier than previously believed.

Male speaker Neolithic man would have used an axe to cut the trees.

Not everyone accepts the idea of the Neolithic period as woman-centered.

Perhaps some, or even many, Neolithic societies perished because of this.

The Neolithic builders created monuments to rival the hills themselves, an activity that required a massive dedication of resources.

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