Oldowan

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the prehistoric culture that made these stone tools.
Adjective
  1. 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.

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