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Swiderian, a. Archæol.|swɪˈdɪərɪən| [ad. F. swidérien, G. swiderien, f. Swidry, the name of an archæol. site near Warsaw (see quot. 1936): cf. -an.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a (principally) mesolithic culture in Poland and neighbouring countries, or its artefacts. Also absol. as n.
[1922Wiadomosci Archeologiczne VII. 96 Dans la formation III on trouve des documents archéologiques se rapportant aux industries magdalénienne moyenne, swidérienne, azilienne.] 1936J. G. D. Clark Mesolithic Settlement N. Europe ii. 62 Two alternative names have been put forward..to label a culture..centering on the valleys of the Vistula and the Bug-Swiderian, after the site at Swidry..and Chlebowician... Numerous Swiderian sites are known from Poland. 1939V. G. Childe Dawn Europ. Civilization (ed. 3) i. 4 The Swiderian culture, represented by assemblages of small flint tools collected from sand-dunes in Russia and Poland, sometimes under fossil turf-lines of Atlantic age, is characterized by small asymmetrically tanged-points..used presumably as arrow-heads. 1948A. Kroeber Anthropol. (ed. 2) xvi. 270 Swiderian, Poland, Rumania; smallish, tanged blades; early Mesolithic—in fact apparently late Palaeolithic also. 1951[see Lyngby]. 1960C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 518/2 Swiderian, a culture found in Poland, with the tranchet ax a typical tool. Its remains, mostly kitchen middens, resemble the Campignian culture, which is found further south. |