pre-Chellean

adjective

(ˈ)prē+

: of, relating to, or constituting a Lower Pleistocene culture preceding the Abbevillian and characterized by crudely flaked stone hand axes and rostrocarinates

Word History

Etymology

pre- + Chellean

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