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Magosian, a. Archæol.|mæˈgəʊsɪən|
[f. the place-name Magosi in Uganda + -an.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating a stone-age culture in Uganda.
1932Wayland & Burkitt in Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. LXII. 369 The Magosian Culture of Uganda... Magosi, an outpost of the King's African Rifles in Karamojo (North-East Uganda), is situated 160 miles due north of the centre of Mount Elgon and less than 5 miles to the west of the..escarpment that forms the boundary between Uganda and..Kenya Colony. 1946Ibid. LXXVI. i. 60/1 The Magosian culture was first noticed at Sawmills..by Jones in 1924. At that time..it was not even given a name. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. ii. 40 We find a similar link between the Middle and the Later Stone Ages. These are the various forms of the Magosian Culture and they are now placed in the Second Intermediate stage. This culture is named from the small rock cistern in north⁓eastern Uganda, excavated by Wayland. 1968Encycl. Brit. II. 232/2 In the final stages of the Middle Stone Age, known as the South African Magosian, microlithic elements appear, just as in the case of east Africa. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 120 The sequence continued with Sangoan, followed by Early Middle Stone Age (Lupemban) industries related to those of the Congo, then Magosian. |