Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Old World Upper Paleolithic culture that succeeded the Aurignacian and was characterized by new stone implements and stylized symbolic forms of art.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Second, stone tools found in the fissure dated the deposit to the Middle Solutrean and the Proto-Solutrean, that is, the period between 20,000 and 22,000 years ago.
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[Aside to William B: wiki "Solutrean hypothesis" yer all French:]
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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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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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"With luck, we'll find definitive proof that Solutrean peoples came over from Europe, built the pyramid, and colonized the New World," says Coe.
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While I don't necessarily agree with the Solutrean hypothesis, I see arguments against it as more political, rather than archaeological, in nature.
Archive 2007-01-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007
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While I don't necessarily agree with the Solutrean hypothesis, I see arguments against it as more political, rather than archaeological, in nature.
Four Stone Hearth 8 Christopher O'Brien 2007
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Most of their argument rests upon what they see as the similarity in lithic technology between the Solutrean cultures known from France and the Clovis culture from North America.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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Most of their argument rests upon what they see as the similarity in lithic technology between the Solutrean cultures known from France and the Clovis culture from North America.
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A supposed link between Clovis and Solutrean stone tools (the Solutrean, known from Spain and southwestern France, dates from 20,000 to 16,000 years ago) is dubious.
Books: Beyond Clovis 1999
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