Oldowan

English

Etymology

From the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where the first Oldowan lithics were discovered in the 1930s.

Adjective

Oldowan (not comparable)

  1. (archaeology) Belonging to the earliest widespread stone-tool archaeological industry in prehistory.
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