technofossil
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
technofossil (plural technofossils)
- (neologism) A fossil formed from an industrial man-made object or material.
- 2019, Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers, David Baker, editors, The Routledge Companion to Big History[1], Routledge, →ISBN:
- Metros are part of the evolving body-fossil, technofossil, trace fossil, and chemical record of the genus Homo that extends back some 2.8 million years in Africa (Villmoare et al., 2015), and is underpinned by a technofossil record of stone tools that is shared with hominins other than Homo (Harmand et al., 2015).