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eolith Archæol.|ˈiːəʊlɪθ|
[f. eo- + lith, after neolith. Cf. F. éolithe.]
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.
1895A. H. Keane Ethnol. 74 Other modern savages, who are quite incapable of fashioning any of these British eoliths, as they are called. 1907T. R. Holmes Anc. Brit. 26 Flints of divers shapes..which have been termed ‘eoliths’, or stone implements of a dawning age. 1921R. A. S. Macalister Text-bk. European Archæol. I. 148 Certain flint flakes to which the name ‘Eoliths’ has been given. 1950G. 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. |