How to Use neolithic in a Sentence

neolithic

adjective
  • Social media’s neolithic age is simply giving way to the next era, and the old dinosaurs are sinking in tar.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
  • These go back to the Neolithic era in prehistoric Europe.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 17 Dec. 2025
  • These Neolithic felines were pure wildcat.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Cliffs riddled with thousands of neolithic caves, some still used as homes or animal sheds, some once used as churches, hover above.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Neolithic art in Orkney tends to be angular and abstract—less florid than the spirals seen in Irish tombs.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The picture has become neolithic stone, a talisman with the aura of the everyday.
    — Vulture, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Every age fashions the Neolithic period in its own image.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • And archaeologists have proven through tests that there are plenty of possible techniques open to peoples of the neolithic to do just that.
    — Fox News, 14 May 2018
  • The taiga’s long stretches of subzero weather, meanwhile, allowed the Neolithic people to freeze meat and oils.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Why did Neolithic peoples expend so much energy on undertakings of this kind?
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Goats were among the first animals domesticated in Ireland and have been farmed there since Neolithic times.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And whether or not there may have ever been a hall of this sort at Stonehenge itself, the project offers insight into Neolithic culture in the wider area.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026
  • This further underscores how Neolithic communities were necessary to move it to its final spot.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 June 2026
  • This shift called the Neolithic transition allowed for bigger communities and eventually gave rise to the first cities.
    — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
  • For Edmonds, this meant reaching past the accumulation of data and seeking a way into the Neolithic mind.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • For a disease that affected even our neolithic ancestors, the world had to wait until 2021 for the first-ever malaria vaccine.
    — Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Geometric designs hint at the contours of the Neolithic imagination.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Stonehenge, the neolithic-era site in England, is typically closed to the public but is opened annually for the Solstice.
    — Caroline Simon, USA TODAY, 21 June 2018
  • Made of nephrite, the pendant resembles classic jade and was found alongside other Neolithic artifacts, including gold items in a burial.
    — Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
  • From ancient forts and settlements to Roman roads, some of England’s most impressive Neolithic monuments can be found here.
    — Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Almost nothing is known of Neolithic ships, but the woodworking must have been as excellent as the masonry in Structure 27.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Instead, the new study strengthens the case that Neolithic humans deliberately moved the stones over vast distances using early transport methods.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The circle will continue to be studied and could offer new insights into the neolithic way of life, perhaps even demystifying a few of the secrets around how Stonehenge was built.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2020
  • Whereas animals might migrate, seeking more hospitable habitats, a Norman church, Roman villa or neolithic stone circle cannot move.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The paper says that hunter-gatherer communities lived on in these landscapes well into the neolithic period and sustained themselves on fish and other resources from waterways.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In 2023, a team began excavating a Neolithic tomb at a farm called Blomuir, in East Mainland.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • To understand the role dogs may have played during this transition, the team modeled the ancestry of European dogs as Neolithic farmers arrived on the continent.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That majestic array of green-gray gneiss sentinels may be the most conceptually elaborate Neolithic monument in Europe.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Study scope and main findings The researchers examined dozens of pre-Neolithic burials in which skeletons were placed in tightly crouched or squatting positions and, in many cases, showed patches of burning.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Even before developing writing, our Neolithic ancestors appear to have used alcohol in search of mind-expanding inspiration.
    — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026

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