Solutrean
English
Etymology
From French Solutréen, named in 1872 by Gabriel de Mortillet after a prehistoric site situated by the Rock of Solutré.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈlutɹi.ən/
Hypernyms
- (stage of Paleolithic): Paleolithic
Translations
stage of Paleolithic
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Adjective
Solutrean (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Solutrean.
- Of or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis.
Noun
Solutrean (plural Solutreans)
- A member of a hypothetical Paleolithic people who migrated from Europe to North America in the context of the widely rejected Solutrean hypothesis.
- 2018 Historically Speaking: The Solutrean Migration
- It was deemed the explorers would have originated in Spain, France and Portugal. They must have traveled along the ice sheets in animal-skin boats, simlar to those of the the Inuits. These tribes, called Solutreans, settled in at least five separate regions surrounding Chesapeake Bay.
- 2018 Historically Speaking: The Solutrean Migration
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