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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or being a society or culture prior to the use of ceramics or pottery.
Wiktionary
- adj. archaeology Describing a society that did not use pottery
Etymologies
- pre- + ceramic (Wiktionary)
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“Our plans include working at El Carrizal focusing on the Mesoamerican cultural phases for some years and, at some point, start a special project on the preceramic groups of the area.”
Staff Profiles « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site
“In the first book written in English about the Chinchorro culture, the author reconstructs daily life, and challenges our assumption that preceramic cultures had a simple socioreligious life.”
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