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ur-culture en · NOUN

Etymology

From ur- + culture.

Meanings

1. A theoretical original culture.
   • The Satsumon culture itself was presumably some mixture of Jomon and Yayoi, which as others have mentioned are the main two ur-cultures in Japan (though there are definitely later waves of arrivals as well). 2017, Benjamin Peterson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
   • Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon. 2009, William Ian Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust, page 143:

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