Etymology

Stillbay

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Today it means: A Middle Stone Age stone tool manufacturing style, first described from the site of Stilbaai (Still Bay) in South Africa. Full definition →

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The story

Named by archaeologists A. J. H. Goodwin and C. van Riet Lowe in 1929.

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