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

Stone Age (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

• (archaeology): Lithic

Hyponyms

• (archaeology): Paleolithic, Old Stone Age, Mesolithic, Neolithic, New Stone Age, Chalcolithic, Copper Age

Coordinate terms

• (archaeology): Iron Age, Bronze Age

Derived terms

• Middle Stone Age
• stuck in the Stone Age

Translations

prehistoric period

• Albanian: koha e gurit f (definite)
• Arabic: الْعَصْر الْحَجَرِيّ m (al-ʕaṣr al-ḥajariyy) (definite)
• Armenian: քարի դար (hy) (kʿari 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: 석기시대(石器時代) (ko) (seokgisidae)
• Kyrgyz: таш доору (taş dooru)
• Lao: ຍຸກຫີນ (lo) (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 (fa) ('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 (asri 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

informal: any extremely primitive or undeveloped era

• Finnish: kivikausi (fi)
• Irish: clochaois f
• Korean: 석기시대(石器時代) (ko) (seokgisidae), 구석기(舊石器) (ko) (guseokgi)
• Macedonian: камено време n (kameno vreme)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: عَصْرِ حَجَر ('asr-e hajar)

• 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