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
  • The rocks used by Stone Age people can tell us a lot about their lives and their interactions with the world.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2025
  • This flies in the face of a decades-old stereotype that Stone Age women didn’t use stone tools as frequently as men.
    — Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The tiny, wooded citadel is the northernmost Stone Age stronghold anywhere in Eurasia.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In Scotland, dry stone structures date back as far as 5,000 years, to the actual Stone Age.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • As part of the Stone Dead project, the new research demonstrates how tools played an important role in Stone Age funerary rites.
    — Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The site, known as Zvejnieki cemetery, is one of Europe’s largest Stone Age cemeteries.
    — Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Regardless of meaning, the markings should put these Stone Age human ancestors in a different light.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Here was a human elbow joint, burned and fractured, preserved in sediments full of debris from the daily lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers.
    — Elizabeth Sawchuk, The Conversation, 1 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Archaeologists believe these were ground into the rock, using hammers made of stone, during the Later Stone Age.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • Archaeological evidence shows the area around the falls was occupied by Stone Age peoples over 3 million years ago.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • 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
  • Archaeologists soon swooped in, and immediately noticed Stone Age graves exposed along the quarry’s walls.
    — Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Globally, unmapped Stone Age villages have been erased by freeways, airports, and industrial agriculture.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • As today’s world faces rising sea levels driven by climate change, the researchers hope to shed light on how Stone Age societies adapted to shifting coastlines more than eight millennia ago.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • After the last ice age, huge ice sheets melted and global sea levels rose, submerging Stone Age settlements and forcing the hunter-gatherer human population inland.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The deposit about 300 miles southeast of Johannesburg is famous for its Stone Age artifacts, including evidence of fire-making.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2026

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