middle paleolithic

English Thesaurus

1. the time period of Neanderthal man; ended about 35,000 years BC (noun.time)

instance hypernym	:	period, period of time, time period,
definition	:	an amount of time (noun.time)

part meronym	:	palaeolithic, paleolithic, paleolithic age,
definition	:	second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC (noun.time)