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noun - a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint)
A crude stone artifact, such as a flint.
adj - a prehistoric stone tool [n -S] : EOLITHIC
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| A crude stone artifact, such as a flake. |
| a roughly chipped flint found in Tertiary strata, originally thought to be an early artefact but probably of natural origin. |
| a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint) possibly the earliest tools |
| A roughly chipped flint found in Tertiary strata, originally thought to be an early artefact but probably of natural origin. |
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An eolith (from Greek "eos", dawn, and "lithos", stone) is a chipped flint nodule. Eoliths were once thought to have been artifacts, the earliest stone tools, but are now believed to be geofacts (stone fragments produced by fully natural geological processes such as glaciation). * The first eoliths were collected in Kent by Benjamin Harrison, an amateur naturalist and archaeologist, in 1885 (though the name "eolith" wasn't coined until 1892, by J. Allen Browne). Harrison's discoveries were published by Sir Joseph Prestwich in 1891, and eoliths were generally accepted to have been crudely made tools, dating from the Pliocene. Further discoveries of eoliths in the early 20th century in East Anglia by J. Reid Moir and in continental Europe by Aimé Louis Rutot and H. Klaatsch were taken to be evidence of human habitation of those areas before the oldest known fossils. Indeed, the English finds helped to secure acceptance of the hoax remains of Piltdown man. * Because eoliths were so crud |