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Abbevillian, a.|æbəˈvɪlɪən|
Also Abbevillean.
[ad. Fr. Abbevillien (H. Breuil 1932, in Préhistoire I. 125), f. the place-name Abbeville (Somme), France.]
= Chellean a. Also absol.
[1928G. B. Brown Art of Cave Dweller ii. 36 The so-called early ‘drift’ period is generally called the ‘Chelles’ period..though in honour to Boucher de Perthes it might well have been named after Abbeville.] 1934L. S. B. Leakey Adam's Ancestors v. 101 L' Abbé Breuil..has suggested the substitution of the name Abbevillian for Chellean, since Chelles from which the latter name is derived is not a Chellean site. 1937Discovery June 179/2 The Sinanthropus [industry]..belongs to the Lower Pleistocene and is attributed to the Abbevillean in the French palæolithic sequence. 1947J. & C. Hawkes Prehist. Brit. i. 12 Contemporary with the earliest Abbevillian was the Cromer flake culture. |