Ertebølle

[ er-tuh-bol-uh, -buhl-uh ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a late Mesolithic culture of the western Baltic coast associated with kitchen middens and having pottery in its later phases.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ertebølle¹

First recorded in 1925–30; after the type site, on the Jutland coast