The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word NEOLITH
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More clues leading to the result NEOLITH
- Upset female carrying old books and old tool
- What ancient humans used carving up the lion?
- Hotline fails, something from the Stone Age
- The lion represented in old piece of stone
- Tip of tool piercing irregular hole in ancient artefact
- Old stone implement damaged the 15
- Old artefact in hole deteriorating over time
- Lifted layer covering ring, and cast light on ancient tool
- Tool makes one almost agile
- Old tool the lion disturbed
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