soan
soan — adjective
- soanpositive
- soanercomparative
- soanestsuperlative
1. describing stone tools and other objects from an early Stone Age people who live
describing stone tools and other objects from an early Stone Age people who lived in the Soan River Valley, in what is now northern Pakistan
Omar studied a soan chopping tool through the microscope in the university lab.
collocation: soan + chopping tool
Among the ancient river gravels, Eri's team uncovered several soan stone flakes.
The oldest soan artefacts in the Lahore museum are over two hundred thousand years old.
Yara carefully drew every soan tool fragment found during the winter dig.
Few soan sites have been located outside the Potwar Plateau in northern Pakistan.
- Soanian
a fuller variant used interchangeably in academic texts; both refer to the same Lower Paleolithic industry
用法筆記
Used only in archaeological and anthropological writing. Always placed before the noun it describes (attributive only).