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Definition of Magdalenian in English: Magdalenianadjective ˌmaɡdəˈliːnɪənˌmaɡdəˈlēnēən Archaeology 1Relating to or denoting the final Palaeolithic culture in Europe, following the Solutrean and dated to about 17,000–11,500 years ago. It is characterized by a range of bone and horn tools, and by highly developed cave art. Example sentencesExamples - The cave, discovered in 1952 by a dentist and amateur archaeologist, is home to drawings dating back to the Magdalenian period, or between 22 000 and 15 000 years BC, according to French experts.
- More localized traditions, such as the Solutrian and Magdalenian, were responsible for the cave art of south-western France and northern Spain.
- French prehistorian Stephane Lwoff has published sketches of Magdalenian III people from the walls of La Marche cave at Lussac-les-Chateaux.
- By 1869 his scheme for European prehistory was fairly well elaborated and included: the Thenasian (for the now obsolete Eolithic), Chellean, Mousterian, Solutrean, Aurignacian, Magdalenian, and Robenhausian.
- The archaeological material in the Grotte de Marsoulas, which is over 60 km. long, is from the Magdalenian phase of the Upper Palaeolithic.
- 1.1as noun the Magdalenian The Magdalenian culture or period.
Origin Late 19th century: from French Magdalénien 'from La Madeleine', a site of this culture in the Dordogne, France. Rhymes Armenian, Athenian, Mycenaean (US Mycenean), Slovenian, Tyrrhenian Definition of Magdalenian in US English: Magdalenianadjectiveˌmaɡdəˈlēnēən Archaeology 1Relating to or denoting the final Paleolithic culture in Europe, following the Solutrean and dated to about 17,000–11,500 years ago. It is characterized by a range of bone and horn tools, and by highly developed cave art. Example sentencesExamples - By 1869 his scheme for European prehistory was fairly well elaborated and included: the Thenasian (for the now obsolete Eolithic), Chellean, Mousterian, Solutrean, Aurignacian, Magdalenian, and Robenhausian.
- More localized traditions, such as the Solutrian and Magdalenian, were responsible for the cave art of south-western France and northern Spain.
- French prehistorian Stephane Lwoff has published sketches of Magdalenian III people from the walls of La Marche cave at Lussac-les-Chateaux.
- The archaeological material in the Grotte de Marsoulas, which is over 60 km. long, is from the Magdalenian phase of the Upper Palaeolithic.
- The cave, discovered in 1952 by a dentist and amateur archaeologist, is home to drawings dating back to the Magdalenian period, or between 22 000 and 15 000 years BC, according to French experts.
- 1.1as noun the Magdalenian The Magdalenian culture or period.
Origin Late 19th century: from French Magdalénien ‘from La Madeleine’, a site of this culture in the Dordogne, France. |