Magosianadj.n.
/maˈɡəʊsɪən/, U.S. /mæˈɡoʊsiən/ Archaeology.
Designating or relating to a Stone Age culture formerly thought to have existed in sub-Saharan Africa from finds made at Magosi. Also used as n.The finds made at Magosi were later shown to consist of a mixture of elements that did not represent the remains of a single culture.
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Wilton1922
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Magosian1932
1932 Wayland & Burkitt in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 62 369 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.
1946 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 76 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.
1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern 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.
1968 Encycl. 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.
1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 214 The savannah..now carried assemblages of Magosian type..which include lunates and other forms of steeply retouched blades.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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