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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 stone, See also:horn or See also:bone. The term has no See also:chronological value, as the Stone 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.
End of Article: STONE AGE
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