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adj
Belonging to the earliest widespread stone-tool archaeological industry in prehistory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
A member of the prehistoric culture that made these stone tools.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
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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