Stone Age

stone-age stone age English Alternative forms en stone-age Pronunciation 'stōn āj" RP, en /ˈstəʊn ˌeɪdʒ/ 'stōn āj" US, en /ˈstoʊn ˌeɪdʒ/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Stone Age.wav US Proper noun Stone Age 1 en archaeology paleontology A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking. en prehistory en Old Stone Age Paleolithic#Proper noun ; Mesolithic ; New Stone Age Neolithic#Proper noun ; Pre-Pottery Neolithic Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ; Chalcolithic Cyprolithic Copper Age en Iron Age Bronze Age en figuratively informal Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era. en If they attack our country, we'll bomb them back to the Stone Age! en Bungie Bungie w:Halo 3 w:Microsoft Game Studios 25 September 2007 w:Xbox 360 Terminal Five (Normal) Welcome back to the Stone Age, vermin. Welcome home. en figuratively The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development. Derived terms en Stone Age diet Middle Stone Age stuck in the Stone Age Translations prehistoric period Albanian: sq koha e gurit f definite Arabic: ar الْعَصْر الْحَجَرِيّ m definite, ar عَصْر حَجَرِيّ m indefinite Armenian: hy քարի դար Asturian: ast Edá de Piedra f Azerbaijani: az daş dövrü Bashkir: ba таш быуат Belarusian: be ка́менны век m Bengali: bn প্রস্তর যুগ Bulgarian: bg ка́менна епо́ха f, bg ка́менна е́ра f Burmese: my ကျောက်ခေတ် Catalan: ca Edat de pedra f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 石器時代 Mandarin: cmn 石器時代 Shíqì Shídài Czech: cs doba kamenná f Danish: da stenalder c Dutch: nl steentijd m, nl stenen tijdperk n Erzya: myv кевпинге Esperanto: eo ŝtonepoko Estonian: et kiviaeg Finnish: fi kivikausi French: fr âge de pierre m Galician: gl idade de pedra f, gl Idade de Pedra f Georgian: ka ქვის ხანა German: de Steinzeit f Greek: el Εποχή του Λίθου n Hebrew: he תְּקוּפַת הָאֶבֶן f Hindi: hi प्रस्तरयुग m, hi पाषाण युग m, hi पाषाणयुग m, hi पाषाणकाल m Hungarian: hu kőkorszak Icelandic: is steinöld f Indonesian: id Zaman Batu Irish: ga Clochaois f an Chlochaois Italian: it età della pietra f Japanese: ja 石器時代 せっきじだい, Sekki Jidai Kazakh: kk тас дәуірі Khmer: km យុគថ្ម, km យុគថ្មបំបែក Korean: ko ^석기 시대(石器時代) Kyrgyz: ky таш доору Lao: lo ຍຸກຫີນ Latvian: lv akmens laikmets m Lithuanian: lt akmens amžius m Low German: nds Steentiet m Macedonian: mk камено време n Malay: ms Zaman Batu Maltese: mt Żmien il-Ħaġar Māori: mi Ao Kōwhatu Norman: nrf Âge dé Pièrre m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb steinalderen m definite Persian: Iranian Persian: fa-ira عَصْرِ حَجَر, fa-ira عَصْرِ سَنْگ Polish: pl epoka kamienia f Portuguese: pt idade da pedra f, pt Idade da Pedra f Romanian: ro epoca de piatră f Russian: ru ка́менный век m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh камено доба n Latin: sh kameno doba n Slovak: sk kamenná doba f Slovene: sl kamena doba f Southern Altai: alt ташту чак Spanish: es Edad de Piedra f Swahili: sw Zama za Mawe Swedish: sv stenåldern c Tajik: tg асри санг Tatar: tt таш дәвере Thai: th ยุคหิน, th สมัยหิน Turkish: tr Taş Devri Turkmen: tk daş asyry Ukrainian: uk кам'яна́ доба́ f, uk кам'яни́й вік m Urdu: ur سَن٘گی دَور m Uyghur: ug تاش دەۋرى Uzbek: uz tosh davri Vietnamese: vi thời đại đồ đá Welsh: cy Oes y Cerrig f informal: any extremely primitive or undeveloped era Finnish: fi kivikausi Irish: ga clochaois f Korean: ko ^석기 시대(石器時代), ko ^구석기(舊石器) Macedonian: mk камено време n Persian: Iranian Persian: fa-ira عَصْرِ حَجَر⁩ Polish: pl epoka kamienia f Russian: ru ка́менный век m Turkish: tr taş devri figuratively: the time a particular field was introduced Finnish: fi kivikausi Irish: ga clochaois f Polish: pl epoka kamienia f Russian: ru ка́менный век m Further reading en Historical periods