Stone Age

See also: stone-age and stone age

English

Alternative forms

• stone-age

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: 'stōn āj", IPA^(key): /ˈstəʊn ˌeɪdʒ/
• (US) enPR: 'stōn āj", IPA^(key): /ˈstoʊn ˌeɪdʒ/

Proper noun

the Stone Age

1. (archaeology, paleontology) A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.

   Holonym: prehistory

   Meronyms: Old Stone Age, Paleolithic; Mesolithic; New Stone Age, Neolithic; Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B; Chalcolithic, Cyprolithic, Copper Age

   Coordinate terms: Iron Age, Bronze Age

2. (figuratively, informal) Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era.

   If they attack our country, we'll bomb them back to the Stone Age!

   • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Five (Normal):

     Welcome back to the [Stone Age], vermin. Welcome home.

3. (figuratively) The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development.

Derived terms

• Middle Stone Age
• Stone Age diet
• stuck in the Stone Age

Translations

prehistoric period

• Albanian: koha e gurit f (definite)
• Arabic: الْعَصْر الْحَجَرِيّ m (al-ʕaṣr al-ḥajariyy) (definite), عَصْر حَجَرِيّ m (ʕaṣr ḥajariyy) (indefinite)
• Armenian: քարի դար (hy) (kʻari dar)
• Asturian: Edá de Piedra f
• Azerbaijani: daş dövrü
• Bashkir: таш быуат (taş bıwat)
• Belarusian: ка́менны век m (kámjenny vjek)
• Bengali: প্রস্তর যুগ (prostor jug)
• Bulgarian: ка́менна епо́ха f (kámenna epóha), ка́менна е́ра f (kámenna éra)
• Burmese: ကျောက်ခေတ် (my) (kyaukhket)
• Catalan: Edat de pedra f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 石器時代 / 石器时代 (sek⁶ hei³ si⁴ doi⁶)

  Mandarin: 石器時代 / 石器时代 (zh) (Shíqì Shídài)

• Czech: doba kamenná (cs) f
• Danish: stenalder c
• Dutch: steentijd (nl) m, stenen tijdperk n
• Erzya: кевпинге (kevpinge)
• Esperanto: ŝtonepoko
• Estonian: kiviaeg
• Finnish: kivikausi (fi)
• French: âge de pierre (fr) m
• Galician: idade de pedra f, Idade de Pedra (gl) f
• Georgian: ქვის ხანა (kvis xana)
• German: Steinzeit (de) f
• Greek: Εποχή του Λίθου (el) n (Epochí tou Líthou)
• Hebrew: תְּקוּפַת הָאֶבֶן (he) f
• Hindi: प्रस्तरयुग (hi) m (prastaryug), पाषाण युग m (pāṣāṇ yug), पाषाणयुग (hi) m (pāṣāṇyug), पाषाणकाल (hi) m (pāṣāṇkāl)
• Hungarian: kőkorszak (hu)
• Icelandic: steinöld (is) f
• Indonesian: Zaman Batu
• Irish: an Chlochaois f
• Italian: età della pietra (it) f
• Japanese: 石器時代 (ja) (せっきじだい, Sekki Jidai)
• Kazakh: тас дәуірі (tas däuırı)
• Khmer: យុគថ្ម (yuk thmɑɑ), យុគថ្មបំបែក (km) (yuk thmɑɑ bɑmbaek)
• Korean: 석기 시대(石器時代) (ko) (Seokgi sidae)
• Kyrgyz: таш доору (taş dooru)
• Lao: ຍຸກຫີນ (nyuk hīn)
• Latvian: akmens laikmets m
• Lithuanian: akmens amžius m
• Low German: Steentiet m
• Macedonian: камено време n (kameno vreme)
• Malay: Zaman Batu
• Maltese: Żmien il-Ħaġar
• Maori: Ao Kōwhatu
• Norman: Âge dé Pièrre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: steinalderen m (definite)

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: عَصْرِ حَجَر (asr-e hajar), عَصْرِ سَنْگ (asr-e sang)

• Polish: epoka kamienia (pl) f
• Portuguese: idade da pedra f, Idade da Pedra (pt) f
• Romanian: epoca de piatră (ro) f
• Russian: ка́менный век (ru) m (kámennyj vek)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: камено доба n

  Roman: kameno doba n

• Slovak: kamenná doba f
• Slovene: kamena doba (sl) f
• Spanish: Edad de Piedra (es) f
• Swahili: Zama za Mawe
• Swedish: stenåldern (sv) c
• Tajik: асри санг (asr-i sang)
• Tatar: таш дәвере (taş däwere)
• Thai: ยุคหิน (th) (yúk–hǐn), สมัยหิน
• Turkish: Taş Devri
• Turkmen: daş asyry
• Ukrainian: кам'яна́ доба́ f (kamʺjaná dobá), кам'яни́й вік m (kamʺjanýj vik)
• Urdu: سَن٘گی دَور m (saṅgī daur)
• Uyghur: تاش دەۋرى (tash dewri)
• Uzbek: tosh davri
• Vietnamese: thời đại đồ đá (vi)
• Welsh: Oes y Cerrig f

informal: any extremely primitive or undeveloped era

• Finnish: kivikausi (fi)
• Irish: clochaois f
• Korean: 석기 시대(石器時代) (ko) (Seokgi sidae), 구석기(舊石器) (ko) (Guseokgi)
• Macedonian: камено време n (kameno vreme)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: عَصْرِ حَجَر

• Russian: ка́менный век (ru) m (kámennyj vek)
• Turkish: taş devri (tr)

figuratively: the time a particular field was introduced

• Finnish: kivikausi (fi)
• Irish: clochaois f
• Russian: ка́менный век (ru) m (kámennyj vek)

Further reading

• Stone Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia