Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

middle stone age

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English

Syllables: mid-dle -s-tone age
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A period of African prehistory between the Early Stone Age and the Late Stone Age, generally considered to have begun around 280,000 years ago and ended around 50–25,000 years ago.

Inflected Forms

the Middle Stone Age (canonical)

Synonyms

MSA

Questions

What does middle stone age mean?: A period of African prehistory between the Early Stone Age and the Late Stone Age, generally considered to have begun around 280,000 years ago and ended around 50–25,000 years ago.

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