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)‎^[1]:

     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).