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oldowan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English

Syllables
oldowan
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Belonging to the earliest widespread stone-tool archaeological industry in prehistory.

noun

A member of the prehistoric culture that made these stone tools.

Etymology

From Maasai Olduvai, from the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where the first Oldowan lithics were discovered in the 1930s.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Oldowans (plural)

Questions

What does oldowan mean?
Belonging to the earliest widespread stone-tool archaeological industry in prehistory.
Where does oldowan come from?
From Maasai Olduvai, from the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where the first Oldowan lithics were discovered in the 1930s.

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