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adj
Of or pertaining to the period when certain stone artefacts, found at the archaeological site Lomekwi 3 in Kenya, were manufactured and used, apparently by hominins prior to the emergence of genus Homo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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name
A loosely defined period, approximately 3.3 million years ago, characterised by the manufacture and use of the tools found at Lomekwi 3.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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History
From Lomekwi + -an, after the archaeological site Lomekwi 3 in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. From no earlier than 2015, the year of publication of the discovery.
