English Explanatory Dictionary

Gravettian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to a specific archaeological tool-making industry of the European Upper Paleolithic era prevalent before the last glacial maximum, c. 33000–20000 BCE.

Word forms

Gravettian

Etymology

Coined by English archaeologist Dorothy Garrod in 1938, named after the site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France, where the characteristic tools were first found and studied.

Derived words

Epigravettian
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