Tardenoisian

The Mesolithic;
	↑ Upper Paleolithic
	Mesolithic Europe Fosna–Hensbacka culture Komsa culture Maglemosian culture Lepenski Vir culture Kunda culture Narva culture Komornica culture Swiderian culture Epipaleolithic Transylvania Mesolithic Transylvania Tardenoisian Schela Cladovei culture Mesolithic Southeastern Europe Epipaleolithic (Levant) Levantine corridor Natufian Khiamian Caucasus Trialetian Zagros Zarzian culture
	↓ Neolithic;

The Tardenoisian (or Beuronian) is an archaeological culture of the Mesolithic period from northern France and Belgium. Similar cultures are known further east in central Europe, parts of Britain.^[1] and west across Spain. It is named after the Tardenois region in France, where E. Taté first discovered its characteristic artifacts in 1885.

Characteristic artifacts include trapezoid, chisel-ended arrowheads and small flint blades made by the pressure-technique.

The Tardenoisian followed the Ahrensburgian, with which it was paralleled, and lasted from about 8000 BC until the Neolithic.

Notes

↑ V. Gordon Childe, The Prehistory of Scotland, 1935, p. 20

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[1] V. Gordon Childe, The Prehistory of Scotland, 1935, p. 20