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): /səˈlu.tɹi.ən/

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Proper noun

Solutrean

1. One of the final stages of the Paleolithic, c. 22000–17000 BCE.

Hypernyms

• (stage of Paleolithic): Paleolithic

Translations

stage of Paleolithic

• French: Solutréen (fr) m

Adjective

Solutrean (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Solutrean.
2. Of or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 140:

     Childbirth was only suggested by these features in the Solutrean culture, but now all is made definite and explicit as she is shown seated upon the leopard throne with the divine child emerging between her legs.

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History:

     Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats.

Translations

pertaining to the Solutrean

• French: solutréen (fr) m

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^{Archived on 24 January 2021.}

     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^[sic] to those of the the^[sic] Inuits. These tribes, called Solutreans, settled in at least five separate regions surrounding Chesapeake Bay.

See also

• Beringian

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