Solutrean
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Etymology edit
From French Solutréen, named in 1872 by Gabriel de Mortillet after a prehistoric site situated by the Rock of Solutré.
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Proper noun edit
Solutrean
- One of the final stages of the Paleolithic.
Hypernyms edit
- (stage of Paleolithic): Paleolithic
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Adjective edit
Solutrean (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Solutrean.
- Of or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 140:
- Childbirth was only suggested by these features in the Solutrean culture, but now all is made definite and explicit as she is shown seated upon the leopard throne with the divine child emerging between her legs.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History:
- Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats.
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Noun edit
Solutrean (plural Solutreans)
- A member of a hypothetical Paleolithic people who migrated from Europe to North America in the context of the widely rejected Solutrean hypothesis.
- 2018 Historically Speaking: The Solutrean MigrationArchived on 24 January 2021.