单词	Neolithic
释义	NeolithicNe‧o‧lith‧ic, neolithic /ˌniːəˈlɪθɪk◂/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINNeolithic Origin: 1800-1900 neo- + Greek lithos ‘stone’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS 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. word sets WORD SETS► Anthropology clansman, nounclanswoman, nounculturally, adverbculture, noundemography, noun-ese, suffixethnic, adjectiveethnography, nounethnology, nounfirst generation, nounintermarry, verbinterracial, adjectivekinship, nounmegalith, nounnative, adjectiveneanderthal, nounNeanderthal man, nounNeolithic, adjectivenomad, nounorientalist, nounpeace pipe, nounprimitive, adjectiveprimordial, adjectivepygmy, nounracial, adjectivesavage, adjectivesavage, nounsettlement, nounsettler, nountaboo, adjectivetotem, nountotem pole, nountribal, adjectivetribalism, nountribe, nountribesman, nountribeswoman, nountroglodyte, nounwampum, nounwar dance, nounwar paint, nounwhite, adjective Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► 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. relating to the last period of the Stone Age, about 10,000 years ago, when people began to live together in small groups and make stone tools and weapons:  a Neolithic burial ground
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