ur-culture

English

Alternative forms
  • Ur-culture, urculture

Etymology

From ur- +‎ culture.

Noun

ur-culture (plural ur-cultures)

  1. A theoretical original culture.
    • 2009, William Ian Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust, page 143:
      Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon.
    • 2017, Benjamin Peterson, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:
      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).
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