technofossil

English

Etymology

From techno- +‎ fossil.

Noun

technofossil (plural technofossils)

1. (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, 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).