单词 | pre-dorset |
释义 | Pre-Dorsetadj.n. Archaeology. A. adj. Of or relating to the culture of the first occupants of the Canadian Arctic, c2400–900 b.c., derived from Siberian Neolithic antecedents and utilizing chipped stone burins, bifacial tools, and simple toggling harpoons. ΚΠ 1954 Amer. Antiq. 19 305 In the Churchill region of Hudson Bay, J. L. Giddings reported a flint site which may be pre-Dorset. 1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples iv. 87 Regional variants of the basic Pre-Dorset material culture pattern occurred, suggesting that local ‘tribes’ may have developed. 2005 J. Hoffecker Prehistory of North vii. 132 The Pre-Dorset people developed the first true arctic maritime economy of the western hemisphere. B. n. The pre-Dorset period or culture. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific prehistoric culture Thule1927 Folsom1928 Yuma1932 Badarian1949 Dorset1960 Pre-Dorset1962 Lapita1971 1962 Amer. Antiq. 27 445 The culture–time scale spanned pre-Dorset to historic Eskimo. 1974 E. Roch Arts of Eskimo 9/1 Dorset overtook Pre-Dorset in the central Canadian Arctic about 1000 B.C. to 800 B.C., and was itself superseded by people of a culture we now call Thule. 1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples iv. 87 This seems especially the case during the late stages of Pre-Dorset. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1954 |
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