单词 | eolith |
释义 | eolithn. Archaeology. The name given to certain flints which have been found in Tertiary deposits in England, France, and elsewhere, which have been claimed to be the earliest traces of human handiwork, but whose origin is much disputed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of flintstonec1400 celt1748 fairy hammer1815 axe1851 flint-flake1851 stone-axe1864 flake-knife1865 scraper1865 thumb-flint1865 tool-stone1865 saddle quern1867 fabricator1872 grattoir1872 hammer-stone1872 tribrach1873 flake1875 hand-axe1878 pick1888 turtle-back1890 racloir1892 eolith1895 pebble chopper1895 palaeotalith1897 tranchet1899 point1901 pygmy flint1907 microlith1908 Gravette1911 keeled scraper1911 lissoir1911 coup de poing1912 end-scraper1915 burin1916 rostro-carinate1919 tortoise core1919 blade1921 axe-adze1925 petit tranchet1926 tournette1927 pebble tool1931 raclette1932 biface1934 cleaver1935 thumbnail scraper1937 microblade1959 linguate1966 1895 A. H. Keane Ethnol. 74 Other modern savages, who are quite incapable of fashioning any of these British eoliths, as they are called. 1907 T. R. Holmes Anc. Brit. 26 Flints of divers shapes..which have been termed ‘eoliths’, or stone implements of a dawning age. 1921 R. A. S. Macalister Text-bk. European Archæol. I. 148 Certain flint flakes to which the name ‘Eoliths’ has been given. 1950 G. E. Daniel Hundred Years Archæol. vii. 230 Benjamin Harrison, a village shop~keeper of Ightham in Kent..began to collect stone tools in Kent, especially in the plateau gravels. Here he found what are now referred to as Harrisonian eoliths. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1895 |
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