Oldowan
Meaning
Adjective
- Belonging to the earliest widespread stone-tool archaeological industry in prehistory
Origin
- 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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