“Paleolithic” or “Palaeolithic”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 11 prefer “paleolithic” and 0 prefer “palaeolithic”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	paleolithic	palaeolithic	Preference
United States	100	0	“paleolithic”
United Kingdom	72	28	“paleolithic”
India	68	32	“paleolithic”
Philippines	96	4	“paleolithic”
Canada	96	4	“paleolithic”
Australia	82	18	“paleolithic”
Liberia	100	0	“paleolithic”
Ireland	86	14	“paleolithic”
New Zealand	85	15	“paleolithic”
Jamaica	95	5	“paleolithic”
Trinidad & Tobago	87	13	“paleolithic”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“paleolithic”

Paleolithic diet, a diet based on…
…Hamburgian culture of the late Paleolithic, especially through his excavations in…
…culture "is attached to the Paleolithic civilization" ("se trouve rattachée à…
These have concentrated on Paleolithic sites at El Kowm called…
…Cave Man is a late Paleolithic figure of a man engraved…
Flint artifacts of Paleolithic period have been discovered here.
…in the region by the Paleolithic.
…drastically changed the practice of Paleolithic archaeology as it is practiced…
Category:Lower Paleolithic Archaeological cultures of Africa
Paleolithic dogs were directly associated with…

“palaeolithic”

…reaches back into the Lower Palaeolithic, as evidenced by the discovery…
…the end of the Upper Palaeolithic period, beginning the Epipaleolithic.
Blattspitzen survived in some Upper Palaeolithic cultures.
The use-wear analysis of Palaeolithic hand axes is carried out…
The Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of that time also…
2017: Palaeolithic to Contemporary, Icons and Tools,…
…hand axes survived the Middle Palaeolithic in a much smaller area…
Palaeolithic Age
Bedford Museum's archaeology collections include Palaeolithic flint tools and hand axes,…
…and the Progress of the Palaeolithic (Oxbow 1999, 242–262)

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