Solutrean
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Key facts
- Archaeological culture.name
- Solutrean
- Archaeological culture.map
- Homo Sapiens in Europe - solutrean distribution map-en.svg
- Archaeological culture.region
- Western Europe
- Archaeological culture.period
- Upper Paleolithic
- Archaeological culture.dates
- c. 22,000 – c. 17,000 BP
- Archaeological culture.typesite
- Parc archéologique et botanique de Solutré
- Archaeological culture.precededby
- Gravettian
- Archaeological culture.followedby
- Magdalenian in France, and Iberia; in the latter after a transition through the
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- culture
- Part of
- Upper Paleolithic
- Followed by
- Magdalenian
- Follows
- Aurignacian
- Location
- Western Europe
- Image
- Biface feuille de laurier.JPG
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- Commons category
- Solutrean
- start time
- 20000-00-0
- end time
- 15000-00-0
- discoverer or inventor
- Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet
- topic's main category
- Category:Solutrean
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Soul Train
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Details
- Physical characteristics
- Genetics
- Solutrean hypothesis in North American archaeology
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
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The Solutrean industry is a relatively advanced flint tool-making style of the Upper Paleolithic of the Final Gravettian, from around 22,000 to 17,000 BP. Solutrean sites have been found in modern-day France, Spain and Portugal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Solutrean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.