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eolithic
eolithic, a. (and n.) Archæol. (iːəʊˈlɪθɪk) [ad. F. éolithique (G. de Mortillet Le Préhistorique (1883) i. iv. 18), f. eo- + lithic a.1, after neolithic, palæolithic.] Pertaining to the earliest age of man that is represented by the use of worked flint implements. Also fig. and as n.1890 T. Wilson i...
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heliolithic
heliolithic, a. (ˌhiːlɪəʊˈlɪθɪk) [f. helio-, after eolithic, etc.] Designating a civilization characterized by megaliths and sun-worship.1915 G. E. Smith Migr. Early Culture 4 The habit of megalithic building and sun-worship (a combination for which it is convenient to use Professor Brockwell's dist...
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George Grant MacCurdy
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He was the author of:
Obsidian razor of the Aztecs (1900)
The Eolithic Problem (1905)
Some Phases of Prehistoric Archœology (1907)
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mesolithic
mesolithic, a. (mɛsəʊˈlɪθɪk) [f. Gr. µέσο-ς middle + λίθος stone + -ic.] 1. Geol. Used for mesozoic. rare.1876 Ray Lankester tr. Haeckel's Hist. Creat. II. xv. 12 The mesolithic or mesozoic epoch. 2. Archæol. Belonging to a part of the prehistoric ‘stone age’ intermediate between the palæolithic and...
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Primate archaeology
The Eolithic tools were described as being directly used in their natural state or being poorly worked. Both the Eolithic culture and Piltdown man remained controversial until they were finally discredited around the 1950s.
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Strepyan
Strepyan, a. Archæol. (ˈstrɛpɪən) Also Strepyian. [ad. F. Strépyien, f. Strépy, name of a town (the type site) in Belgium: see -an.] Of or belonging to a palæolithic culture of Europe supposed to have existed before the Chellean. Freq. absol.[1904 A. Rutot in Bulletin Société d'Anthropologie de Brux...
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protolithic
protoˈlithic, a. Archæol. [f. proto- + Gr. λίθος stone, after neolithic, etc.] 1. A term introduced by the American ethnologist W. J. McGee to designate a type of primitive stone implements formerly in use amongst the Seri Indians of eastern Mexico (see quots.).1897 Amer. Anthropologist X. 326 In th...
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Norwich Crag Formation
A typologically diagnostic form of 'eolithic' beak-shaped instrument was proposed by E Ray Lankester, the ‘rostro-carinate’, based upon a ‘Norwich Test
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Mesvinian
Mesvinian, a. and n. Archæol. (mɛsˈvɪnɪən) [ad. F. mesvinien, f. Mesvin in Belgium: see -ian.] A. adj. Belonging to the middle palæolithic period or culture of Belgium. B. n. The Mesvinian period.1911 W. J. Sollas Anc. Hunters 109 The Mesvinian, now accepted as the oldest of the Palaeolithic horizon...
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