Aterian

Aterian
/euh tear"ee euhn/, adj. Archaeol.
of or indicating a Middle Paleolithic industry of northwestern Africa and the Sahara, characterized by the production of tanged points and bifacially worked leaf-shaped points of varying sizes.
[1925-30; < F atérien, after the type-site, Bir el Ater, Algeria; see -IAN]

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