eoliths

Some antiquarians have thought to detect such earlier types in the stones that have been named 'eoliths' found in Kent, but, though these 'eoliths' may possibly show human use, the question of their history is far from being settled.

Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times Edward Anwyl 1890

Mortillet's example, investigators have called these "eoliths," and they have been traced back by Verworn to the Miocene of the Auvergne, and by Rutot even to the upper Oligocene.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

Below the Mesvinian comes the nebulous region of "eoliths," which are not yet definitely proved to be of human workmanship.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths.

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

Measured by the duration of human life it is a vast space of time between that first dynasty in Egypt and the coming of the aeroplane, but by the scale that looks back to the makers of the eoliths, it is all of it a story of yesterday.

The World Set Free Herbert George 1914

But the stone weapons which have come down to us, even in their crudest forms (eoliths), are very far from representing the earliest achievements of man in the accumulation of culture.

The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform James Harvey Robinson 1899

There were also very crude flint implements (or eoliths).

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

In this connection the remarks taken from Lubbock in regard to the origin and gradual development of the earliest flint implements will be read with interest; these are similar to the observations on modern eoliths, and their bearing on the development of the stone industry.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

Although these eoliths are even nowadays the subject of many different views, the preoccupation with them has kept the problem of the age of the human race continually before us.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880