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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Old World Upper Paleolithic culture between Mousterian and Solutrean, associated with early modern humans and characterized by artifacts such as figures of stone and bone, graphic artwork, the use of dress and adornment, and flaked stone blades.
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- adjective From or pertaining to a culture of the Upper
Paleolithic , located in Europe and southwest Asia from circa 45,000 to 35,000 years ago, known from archaeological remains. - noun A member of the Aurignacian culture.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Conard noted that the fragments of eight flutes have now been found in Swabian geological deposits dating back 30,000 to 40,000 years - deposits known as the Aurignacian layer.
msnbc.com: Community 2009
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The Aurignacian is a smaller flake industry, with many lumps more or less conical, and often with careful parallel flaking or fluting.
How to Observe in Archaeology Various
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Not only does the jawbone indicate "the wide and rapid dispersal of the earliest moderns across Europe" during the last ice age, more than 40,000 years ago, Dr. Higham's team wrote, it was found in cave layers associated with a technology that archaeologists call the Aurignacian culture.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2011
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The site has evidence of a stone and bone tool industry from 35,000 years ago called the Aurignacian, made by some of the first modern humans in Europe, or Cro-Magnons.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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They were the work of the earliest known representatives of our own species, _Homo sapiens_, in the phase of culture now distinguished by the name "Aurignacian".
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The dogwolf from Goyet Cave was a creature of the Aurignacian culture that had produced the art in Chauvet Cave.
From the Cave to the Kennel Mark Derr 2011
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Well, well ... one guy commented in another blog it was "the Pamela Anderson of the Aurignacian culture", another said it looked more like a chicken with female human breasts (??)
Ladies of the past Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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When Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons met up in SW France around 45,000 years ago, the Neanderthals were still making Mousterian-type tools, pretty much like those they made 100,000 years earlier, while Cro-Magnons had much finer Aurignacian blades, along with increasingly elaborate symbolic artifacts; the wall art in Chauvet Cave has been dated to 35,000 years ago.
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Remains for the older prehistoric dog, which were excavated at Goyet Cave in Belgium, suggest to the researchers that the Aurignacian people of Europe from the Upper Paleolithic period first domesticated dogs.
World's First Dog Excavated Jan 2008
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Remains for the older prehistoric dog, which were excavated at Goyet Cave in Belgium, suggest to the researchers that the Aurignacian people of Europe from the Upper Paleolithic period first domesticated dogs.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008
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