aceramic en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English ceramic English aceramic From a- + ceramic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of a culture, qualifier:period; or site; period; or site) Having no pottery or other ceramicware items.
At Çatal Hüyük we can actually study the transition from an aceramic Neolithic with baskets and wooden vessels to a ceramic Neolithic with the first pottery.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, quoting James Mellaart, Çatal Hüyük, 1967, p. 22, quoted in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 138:
Synonyms
Translations (1)
pt acerâmico (having no pottery)