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Obanian, a. Archæol.|əʊˈbeɪnɪən|
[f. the name of the Scottish burgh of Oban, Strathclyde (formerly Argyllshire).]
Applied to a culture of the mesolithic period for which most evidence is found in the neighbourhood of Oban. Also as n., the Obanian culture or a person living in this culture.
1942H. L. Movius Irish Stone Age ii. iii. 180 With the changing environment certain new forms were evolved to meet the new needs, but lack of flint or other easily worked rocks hampered cultural progress. It is proposed to call this culture the Obanian, after the type site in Argyllshire. Ibid., The Obanian was discovered in 1879 by Symington Grieve (1883) at Caisteal-nan-Gillean, a large kitchen-midden 150 feet in diameter on the Island of Oronsay, Argyllshire. Ibid., At Caisteal-nan-Gillean a large series of stone, bone and antler implements was found, typical of the Obanian culture. 1957V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) i. 5 On the south-west coast of Scotland..the industry..is distinctive enough to be regarded as a new culture, ‘the Obanian’, not certainly descended from the French Azilian. 1958Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scot. LXXXIX. 91 (heading) Notes on the Obanian with special reference to antler- and bone-work. 1959Chambers's Encycl. V. 452/1 The contents of the middens show that the Obanians hunted red and roe deer [etc.]. 1963Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Survey) (ed. 4) 24 The Obanians are found on the west coast and in the islands. 1963E. S. Wood Collins Field Guide Archaeol. iv. 52 The old description of the Obanian culture, based on hunting, and on fish and molluscs, as a movement of the mesolithic people called Azilian, from south-west Europe, no longer holds. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 165/1 Obanian culture... The sites are rock-shelters, and also shell middens on post-glacial raised beaches. The way of life was adapted to coastal conditions. Flintwork is scarce, but diagnostic tools include barbed spears and stone limpet-picks. |