[Ads-l] Antedating of "Stone Age"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Stone Age (OED 1864)

1838 Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, General Anniversary Meeting January 29th, 1838, page 4 (Google Books)

This upper chamber, accordingly, belongs to the bonze period, but the lower one, in which the ember articles lay, belongs to the most remote period, or the stone age as it is called.

Fred Shapiro

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