Oldowan
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of the prehistoric culture that made these stone tools.
Adjective
- 1 Belonging to the earliest widespread stone-tool archaeological industry in prehistory. not-comparable
Etymology
From Maasai Olduvai, from the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where the first Oldowan lithics were discovered in the 1930s.