Antedating of "Stone Age"

[Fred Shapiro]

Stone Age (OED 1864)

1844 _Jrnl. Royal Geographical Soc. London_ XIV. 319  Almost all the
articles received are such as have been dug up in Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, or Ohio, and consist chiefly of stone implements, which bear
a remarkable resemblance to our Scandinavian antiquities of the stone age.

Fred Shapiro


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