Epipaleolithic

Epipaleolithic
/ep'euh pay'lee euh lith"ik, -pal'ee-/, adj.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the human cultures existing at the end of the Paleolithic and the beginnings of the Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age.
[1920-25; EPI- + PALEOLITHIC]

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