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heliolithic

/ ˌhiːlɪəʊˈlɪθɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a civilization characterized by sun worship and megaliths
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In a map showing the distribution of this "heliolithic" culture-complex he indicates the main lines of migration to America, one across the Aleutian chain and down the west coast to California, the other and more important one, across the Pacific to Peru, and thence to various parts of South America, through Central America to the southern half of the United States.

Culture, Heliolithic, 69 Culture, Japanese, 402 Cuneiform, 78 Currents, 18 Cyaxares, 109-10, 429 Cycads, 26, 36 Cyrus the Persian, 111, 116, 121, 123, 134, 429 Czech language, 236 Czecho-Slovaks, 351 Czechs, 304 D Dacia, 195, 200, 203, 227, 236 Dædalus, 94 Dalmatia, 431 Damascus, 243, 253, 431 Danes, 329, 330 Danube, 135, 200, 227, 430 Dardanelles, 136, 147, 292 Darius I, 112, 134, 135, 136, 429 Darius III, 147, 148, 430 Darlington, 356, 434 David, King, 118-19, 429 Da Vinci, Leonardo, 356 Davis, Jefferson, 385, 388 Dawn Man.

Eliot Smith and Rivers have used the term “Heliolithic culture” for the culture of these first agricultural peoples.

Across the warm temperate regions of this rather warmer and better-wooded world, and along the coasts, stretched the brownish peoples of the Heliolithic culture, the ancestors of the bulk of the living inhabitants of the Mediterranean world, of the Berbers, the Egyptians and of much of the population of South and Eastern Asia.

Wherever the brownish people with the Heliolithic culture went they took with them all or most of a certain group of curious ideas and practices.

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