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Cap⋅si⋅an

[kap-see-uhn]
–adjective Archaeology.
of or designating an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa, characterized by the use of geometric microlithic tools.

Origin:
1910–15; < F capsien, equiv. to Caps(a), L name of Gafsa, town in Tunisia near which tools of the culture were discovered + -ien -ian
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Cap·si·an   (kāp'sē-ən)   
adj.  Of, relating to, or being a Paleolithic culture of northern Africa and southern Europe.

[French capsien, from Latin Capsa, Gafsa, a town of west-central Tunisia.]
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