Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the last Upper Paleolithic culture of Europe, succeeding the Solutrean.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, noting one of the divisions of the postglacial series in France, based upon the character and workmanship of the human relics they contain. The name is derived from the caves of La Madeleine in Périgord, where well-finished flints are found associated with carved bone and ivory. It is equivalent to the
Glyptic period . - noun The paleolithic epoch described above.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Many of the markings are thought to date back 13,000 years, to a hunter-gatherer culture known as the Magdalenian.
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A prehistory that could embrace the Magdalenian era of 13,500 years ago did not exist in the human imagination until scientists understood that the caves themselves were formed not a few thousand years ago when biblical interpreters argued the earth was created but tens of thousands of years ago in the great glacial flows.
Before History, Niaux's Art Michael FitzGerald 2011
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The complex etchings were engraved on a hand-sized rock 13,660 years ago, probably by Magdalenian hunter-gatherers.
Map Update Bill Crider 2009
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The complex etchings were engraved on a hand-sized rock 13,660 years ago, probably by Magdalenian hunter-gatherers.
Archive 2009-08-02 Bill Crider 2009
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The earliest recorded impacted wisdom teeth belong to renowned 15,000-year-old "Magdalenian Girl."
March 7th, 2006 2006
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We do have such situation in Solutrean and early Magdalenian, when all were concentrated in the Franco-Cantabrian region.
Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008
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Yes, there was people elsehwere, in Italy or Ukraine or Spain but they were not at the origin of the Magdalenian post-LGM expansion that would recolonize Central Europe and also replace at later date the Gravetto-Solutrean of Iberia.
Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008
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Magdalenian Girl is a woman and therefore has oldest recorded case of impacted wisdom teeth
March 7th, 2006 2006
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Our foreign correspondent, Phillip Grayson a Magdalenian, I say with pride is finally settled in Istanbul and sends a letter on the Hrant Dink matter.
Letter from Istanbul 2007
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Some of these I've had to add photos to Steve's connection is positively Magdalenian so appear out of order.
New posts 2007
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