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eolithic, a. (and n.) Archæol.|iːəʊˈlɪθɪk|
[ad. F. éolithique (G. de Mortillet Le Préhistorique (1883) i. iv. 18), f. eo- + lithic a.1, after neolithic, palæolithic.]
Pertaining to the earliest age of man that is represented by the use of worked flint implements. Also fig. and as n.
1890T. Wilson in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1888 604 The first or Eolithic period belongs entirely to the tertiary geologic epoch. 1893J. A. Brown in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. XXII. 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. Ibid. 97 Flint implements of the Eolithic period (Plateau). 1920Quiggin & Haddon Keane's Man Past & Pr. 10 The tools exhibit deliberate flaking, and mark the transition between eolithic and palaeolithic work. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) li. 294 We.., after killing the sheep in relay, had recourse to stray flints to cut them up... We used them in the eolithic spirit. a1936Kipling Something of Myself (1937) vii. 177 The Times leaders on ‘motor⁓cars’ were eolithic in outlook. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (ed. 2) 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. |