单词 | obanian |
释义 | Obaniann.adj. Archaeology. A. n. 1. With the. A local, late Mesolithic culture first identified from finds made near Oban, Scotland. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific Mesolithic culture Maglemose1915 Maglemosian1921 Ertebølle1927 Natufian1931 Swiderian1936 Larnian1940 Obanian1942 Mazovian1976 1942 H. 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. 1957 V. 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. 2. A person of the Obanian culture. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > person of specific prehistoric culture > Mesolithic Azilian1919 Maglemosian1921 Obanian1959 1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 452/1 The contents of the middens show that the Obanians hunted red and roe deer [etc.]. 1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 24 The Obanians are found on the west coast and in the islands. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Obanian. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific Mesolithic Maglemosian1918 Tardenoisian1921 Lyngby1925 Elmenteitan1929 Sauveterrian1940 Obanian1942 Larnian1975 1942 H. L. Movius Irish Stone Age ii. iii. 180 At Caisteal-nan-Gillean a large series of stone, bone and antler implements was found, typical of the Obanian culture. 1963 E. 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. 1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles v. 103 ‘Strandloopers’, who subsisted to a considerable extent on shellfish, are represented by the Larnian and Obanian industries. 1987 P. Mellars et al. Excavations on Oronsay xv. 264 Tusks of wild boar are known to have been used for the manufacture of implements at other Obanian sites on the Scottish mainland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1942 |
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