Lomekwian

English Etymology From en 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. Adjective - en archaeology 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. en 2017 Margaret E. Lewis Chapter 2: Carnivore Guilds and the Impact of Hominin Dispersals Nicole Boivin; Rémy Crassard; Michael Petraglia Human Dispersal and Species Movement: From Prehistory to the Present w:Cambridge University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0C45DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&dq=%22Lomekwean%22%7C%22Lomekwian%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWvbCixezoAhXUR30KHQR2A-0Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Lomekwean%22%7C%22Lomekwian%22&f=false 31 Makers of Lomekwian tools show less of an understanding of stone fracture mechanics and a reduced reliance on a free-hand technique than makers of Oldowan tools, the next oldest stone tool industry. en 2017 Christina De La Rocha; Daniel J. Conley Silica Stories https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LBNhDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32&dq=%22Lomekwean%22%7C%22Lomekwian%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWvbCixezoAhXUR30KHQR2A-0Q6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=%22Lomekwean%22%7C%22Lomekwian%22&f=false 31 Springer These Lomekwian tools, such as the one illustrated in Fig. 3.1, were an earth-shattering find. They are hundreds of thousands of years older than the previously oldest stone tools found and they absolutely and unquestionably could not have been made by any human being (if your definition of human restricts itself to members of genus Homo, which did not come about until about half a million years later). Finally, these Lomekwian stone tools are of a different style than all previously known stone tools. Proper noun en archaeology A loosely defined period, approximately 3.3 million years ago, characterised by the manufacture and use of the tools found at Lomekwi 3. Further reading Lomekwi Piacenzian Anagrams en aeiklmnow womanlike