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Larnian, a. (n.) Archaeol.|ˈlɑːnɪən|
[f. the name of the type site at Larne, Co. Antrim, + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating a culture which flourished mainly in Northern Ireland in the late mesolithic period. Also absol., the Larnian culture.
1940H. L. Movius in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XLVI. c. 75 Since the Irish Mesolithic forms a distinct cultural complex, and since it is best known from the classic site at Larne, it is proposed to refer to it henceforth as the Larnian. 1954A. D. Lacaille Stone Age in Scotl. vii. 245 It may be surmised that this littoral culture of the North Sea basin evolved on the equivalents of the Hiberno-Scottish Larnian. 1963E. S. Wood Collins Field Guide Archaeol. i. iv. 52 Another hybrid culture..is found in Galloway and Northern Ireland (the Larnian). 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles v. 103 ‘Strandloopers’, who subsisted to a considerable extent on shellfish, are represented by the Larnian and Obanian industries. 1986Barry & Tilling Eng. Dialects of Ulster 2 Archaeologists have called this earliest Irish culture ‘Larnian’ after the first sites to be identified near Larne. |