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Stillbay

Stillbay proper noun: a Middle Stone Age stone tool manufacturing style, first described from the site of Stilbaai (Still Bay) in South Africa.

Proper noun

Stillbay

  1. A Middle Stone Age stone tool manufacturing style, first described from the site of Stilbaai (Still Bay) in South Africa.

Forms of Stillbay

alternative formStill Bay

Origin of Stillbay

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

Questions about Stillbay

What does Stillbay mean?
Stillbay means a Middle Stone Age stone tool manufacturing style, first described from the site of Stilbaai (Still Bay) in South Africa.
What part of speech is Stillbay?
Stillbay is a proper noun.

Words near Stillbay in the dictionary

  1. stillages
  2. Stillaguamish
  3. stillatitious
  4. stillatories
  5. stillatory
  6. Stillbay
  7. stillbirth
  8. stillbirths
  9. stillborn
  10. stillborns
  11. Stille reaction

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