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Périgordian, a. Archæol.|peɪrɪˈgɔədɪən|
Also Perigordian.
[tr. F. Périgordien (D. Peyrony 1933, in Bull. Soc. Préhist. Française XXX. 558), f. the place-name Périgord (see Périgord) + -ian.]
A name given to an Upper Palaeolithic culture represented by flint tools of the kind found at Laugerie-Haute in the Périgord region of Dordogne (see quot. 1938). Also absol. as n.
1938Proc. Prehist. Soc. IV. 4 Peyrony..has found at Laugerie Haute an industry of blunted-back blades... He concludes that in the Chatelperron–Laugerie Haute–La Gravette succession we are dealing with a culture totally different from the so-called Middle Aurignacian,..and he proposes to group all those industries characterised by the blunted-back blade under the title of Perigordian. 1941Ann. Reg. 1940 342 A remarkable painted cave of Perigordian art was found at Lascaux in the Dordogne. 1949M. C. Burkitt Old Stone Age (ed. 2) iv. 64 The Audi and Châtelperron knife blades form an evolving series characteristic of the Périgordian element in the early Aurignacian. 1956H. Read Art of Sculpture ii. 34 There can be little doubt that the so-called Venus of Laussel attributed by the Abbé Breuil to the Périgordian period, is such a cult object. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 174/1 Périgordian, French terminology for a series of Upper Palaeolithic flint industries which are thought to represent a continuing technological tradition. Ibid. 174/2 No known site has a complete and unbroken ‘Périgordian’ sequence. 1977D. K. Bhattacharya Palaeolithic Europe iv. 168 In 1933, Dr. Peyrony declared that what was earlier thought to be lower and upper Aurignacian, is in reality a tradition different from Aurignacian and he named this Perigordian. |