How to Use Paleolithic in a Sentence

Paleolithic

adjective
  • Red-legged partridges have been a favorite game bird in Europe for millennia; its bones even show up in Paleolithic settlements.
    — Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Starch residue found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones indicates that Paleolithic peoples may have eaten bread.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • View gallery - 4 images The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies.
    — Jay Kakade december 10, New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Academics who promoted Paleolithic nutrition in the 1980s called for plenty of plant foods in the diet and ignored Voegtlin, perhaps on account of his endorsement of eugenics.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • Given the patchy nature of Paleolithic evidence, this matter has provoked many disagreements, which began long before the publication of The Stone Age Diet.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • Although the North Aegean’s dynamic environment and geology creates less-than-ideal preservation conditions, the team still discovered evidence of numerous stone tools from multiple Paleolithic periods.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Over the years, excavations at Chagyrskaya Cave in southwestern Siberia have unearthed an assortment of Paleolithic treasures, including heaps of tools fashioned from stone and bone, alongside fossils from the easternmost population of Neanderthals.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 May 2026

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