Meanings
nountechnofossil (plural technofossils)
plural technofossils
- neologismA fossil formed from an industrial man-made object or material.
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Metros are part of the evolving body-fossil, technofossil, trace fossil, and chemical record of the genus Homo that extends back some 2.8 million years in Africa (Villmoare et al., 2015), and is underpinned by a technofossil record of stone tools that is shared with hominins other than Homo (Harmand et al., 2015).
2019, Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers, David Baker, editors, The Routledge Companion to Big History, Routledge, →ISBN
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