ur-culture

plural ur-cultures · alternative Ur-culture · alternative urculture

1. A theoretical original culture.

   Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon.

   2009, William Ian Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust, page 143

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   The Satsumon culture itself was presumably some mixture of Jomon and Yayoi, which as others have mentioned are the main two ur-cultures in Japan (though there are definitely later waves of arrivals as well).

   2017, Benjamin Peterson, (Please provide the book title or journal name)