See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
STONE See also:AGE
, the See also:term employed by anthropologists to describe the earliest See also:stage of human See also:civilization when See also:man had gained ms knowledge of metals, and his weapons and utensils were formed of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, See also:horn or See also:bone
.
The term has no See also:chronological value, as the Stone See also:Age was earlier iii some parts of the See also:world than in others, and even to-See also:day races exist who are still in their Stone Age
.
This first See also:period of human culture has been subdivided by See also:Lord See also:Avebury into See also:Palaeolithic and See also:Neolithic, words which have been generally accepted as expressing the two stages of the rough, unpolished and the finely finished and polished stone implements
.
(See See also:ARCHAEOLOGY.)
STONE-See also:FLY, the name given to See also:medium-sized, neuropterous See also:insects of the See also:family Perlidae with See also:long flexible antennae, wide thoracic sterna and with the wings resembling, as regards See also:size, shape and the See also:fan-like folding of the posterior pair, those typical of the See also:Orthoptera except that the anterior pair is membranous and not coriaceous
.
The immature forms, which are aquatic, carnivorous and active, are very like the adults except in the See also:absence of wings and in their method of respiration, which is either cutaneous or effected by means of variously placed integumental tufts richly supplied with tracheae
.
By some authors the Perlidae are regarded as a See also:special See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, Plecoptera; by others as a sub-order of an order Platyptera, which contains the Termitidae and some other insects as well
.
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