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▪ I. microlithic, a.1 Antiq.|maɪkrəʊˈlɪθɪk|
[f. Gr. µῑκρός small + λίθος stone: see -ic.]
Consisting or constructed of small stones. Hence, of a period, a people, etc. Characterized by the erection of microlithic monuments (opposed to megalithic).
1872Fergusson Rude Stone Mon. ii. 40 The people..affected..what may be called microlithic architecture. Ibid. 47 The cognate examples in the microlithic styles afford us very little assistance in determining either the origin or use of this class of monument.
▪ II. microlithic, a.2|maɪkrəʊˈlɪθɪk|
[f. microlith + -ic.]
a. Pertaining to microliths; characterized by the presence of microliths.
1877Geikie in Nature 4 Oct. 474/2 The abundance of the glassy microlithic base. 1882― Text-bk. Geol. 131 Microlithic, characterized by the abundance of microliths.
b. Archæol. Of or pertaining to microliths (microlith 2); characterized by the use of microliths.
1923A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. xiv. 407 Terminal Capsian..was a local phase..with the microlithic flint industry especially conspicuous... In Africa..the development of the extreme microlithic forms..has been most clearly traced. 1937Garrod & Bate Stone Age Mt. Carmel I. i. viii. 114 We there found a layer containing an abundant microlithic industry, without pottery, superimposed on an eroded breccia with flints of Levalloiso-Mousterian type. 1947J. & C. Hawkes Prehist. Brit. (rev. ed.) 19 The reduction of the size of flints to a ‘microlithic’ scale. 1971World Archaeol. III. 157 Numbers of fragmentary flakes with backed (or ‘microlithic’) retouch occur in many levels of the site. |