Oraniann.adj.
/ɒˈreɪnɪən/, /əˈreɪnɪən/, U.S. /ɔˈreɪniən/, /əˈreɪniən/ Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology.
= Ibero-Maurusian adj. and n.
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Indianism1672
Gaeldom1860
zadruga1887
Nazca1917
Amratian1928
Ibero-Maurusian1934
Oranian1934
Levantinism1949
1934 V. G. Childe New Light most Anc. E. ii. 38 The Capsians and Oranians belonged to a different stock.
1946 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 76 122 Oranian implements lay on the dune surface.
1969 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 2) viii. 182 During the period of transition from the Late Pleistocene to Neothermal times, say between 12,000 and 7500 B.C., the flint industries of North Africa, the Oranian or Ibéro-Maurusian of Morocco and the Eastern Oranian of Cyrenaica, shared the same leading features.
1983 R. D. Whitehouse Macmillan Dict. Archaol. (at cited word) Iberomaurusian, previously sometimes known as ‘Oranian’, this is an industry of the Maghreb dating to final Pleistocene times.
1994 Current Anthropol. 35 681/1 The bow-arrow complex appears by about 15,000 years ago in the Oranian and early Capsian cultures.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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