Solutrean

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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/

Proper noun

Solutrean

  1. One of the final stages of the Paleolithic.

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Adjective

Solutrean (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Solutrean.
  2. Of or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis.

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Noun

Solutrean (plural Solutreans)

  1. 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.

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