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Gravettian

Gravettian adjective: of or relating to a specific archaeological tool-making industry of the European Upper Paleolithic era prevalent before the last glacial maximum, c. 33000–20000 BCE.

Adjective

Gravettian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a specific archaeological tool-making industry of the European Upper Paleolithic era prevalent before the last glacial maximum, c. 33000–20000 BCE.
    • Recently, two additional Gravettian sites, Troyanove 4 and Ozerove, have been explored in central Ukraine (Zaliznyak et al. 2007).2020, Malcolm C. Lillie, Inna D. Potekhina, editors, Prehistoric Ukraine: From the First Hunters to the First Farmers, Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 73

Origin of Gravettian

Coined by English archaeologist Dorothy Garrod in 1938, named after the site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France, where the characteristic tools were first found and studied.

Words formed from Gravettian

Questions about Gravettian

What does Gravettian mean?
Gravettian means of or relating to a specific archaeological tool-making industry of the European Upper Paleolithic era prevalent before the last glacial maximum, c. 33000–20000 BCE.
What part of speech is Gravettian?
Gravettian is an adjective.

Words near Gravettian in the dictionary

  1. graveteiros
  2. graveth
  3. Gravett
  4. gravette
  5. gravettes
  6. Gravettian
  7. Gravetts
  8. graveward
  9. gravewards
  10. graveyard
  11. graveyard of empires

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