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aceramic

aceramic adjective: having no pottery or other ceramicware items.

Adjective

aceramic (not comparable)

  1. (period, or site) Having no pottery or other ceramicware items.
    • At Çatal Hüyük we can actually study the transition from an aceramic Neolithic with baskets and wooden vessels to a ceramic Neolithic with the first pottery.1981, William Irwin Thompson, quoting James Mellaart, Çatal Hüyük, 1967, p. 22, quoted in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
    Synonyms:
    pre-pottery

Synonyms of aceramic

  • pre-pottery

Origin of aceramic

From a- + ceramic.

Questions about aceramic

What does aceramic mean?
Aceramic means having no pottery or other ceramicware items.
What part of speech is aceramic?
Aceramic is an adjective.

Words near aceramic in the dictionary

  1. acequinocyl
  2. acequinoline
  3. acer
  4. aceraceous
  5. acerage
  6. aceramic
  7. acerate
  8. acerated
  9. acerates
  10. acerathere
  11. aceratheres

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