单词 | eolithic |
释义 | eolithicadj.n. Archaeology. Pertaining to the earliest age of man that is represented by the use of worked flint implements. Also figurative and as n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of prehistoric periods prolepticala1646 ante-historical1724 ante-historic1828 lacustrine1830 palaeotherian1831 prehistoric1832 Siwalik1836 megalithic1839 subarctic1846 meta-historical1854 prehistorical1854 lithic1862 protolithic1863 Archaeolithic1865 lacustrian1865 Palaeolithic1865 Mesolithic1866 Hallstatt1869 microlithic1872 palaeocosmic1875 Silurian1875 Miolithic1877 archilithic1879 eneolithic1886 palaeolithical1887 Solutrian1888 eolithic1890 Hallstattian1893 Chellean1894 pre-Palaeolithic1894 palaeolithoid1896 protolithic1896 Siculian1896 Siculic1896 Azilian1899 Acheulean1901 Villanova1901 chalcolithic1902 sub-Neolithic1903 Mesvinian1905 protoneolithic1906 Sicanian1909 Siculan1909 Aurignacian1914 Getulian1914 Châtelperron1915 epipalaeolithic1921 Creswellian1926 Capsian1928 Villanovan1928 Chelleo-Acheulean1930 Abbevillian1934 Swiderian1936 dryas1946 Shamvaian1947 Mazovian1965 Devensian1968 talayotic1974 1890 T. Wilson in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1888 604 The first or Eolithic period belongs entirely to the tertiary geologic epoch. 1893 J. A. Brown in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 22 94 I venture to suggest the following four divisions of the Stone age..1. Eolithic; Roughly hewn pebbles and nodules and naturally broken stones, showing work with thick ochreous patina, found on the plateaux of the chalk. 1893 J. A. Brown in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 22 97 Flint implements of the Eolithic period (Plateau). 1920 A. H. Quiggin & A. C. Haddon Keane's Man Past & Pres. 10 The tools exhibit deliberate flaking, and mark the transition between eolithic and palaeolithic work. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lii. 275 We.., after killing the sheep in relay, had recourse to stray flints to cut them up... We used them in the eolithic spirit. a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) vii. 177 The Times leaders on ‘motor~cars’ were eolithic in outlook. 1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xvi. 631 Rutot's Mesvinian stage of the Eolithic is recognized as probably a Belgian facies of the oldest Levalloisian or Pre-Mousterian. But his still earlier Eolithic stages..find little acceptance by the prehistorians as containing real artifacts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.n.1890 |
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