English Explanatory Dictionary

Oldowan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Belonging to the earliest widespread stone-tool archaeological industry in prehistory.
noun
  1. A member of the prehistoric culture that made these stone tools.

Word forms

Oldowan Oldowans

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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