Azilian

American  

[uh-zeel-yuhn, -ee-uhn, uh-zil-] / əˈzil yən, -i ən, əˈzɪl- /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of an early Mesolithic culture of southern France and northern Spain.

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Azilian British  

/ əˈzɪlɪən /

noun

1. a Palaeolithic culture of Spain and SW France that can be dated to the 10th millennium _bc , characterized by flat bone harpoons and schematically painted pebbles

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adjective

1. of or relating to this culture

Etymology

Origin of Azilian

1895–1900; named after Mas d' Azil, village in Ariège, S France, near where remains of the culture were found; -ian

Example Sentences

The Azilian rock pictures to which we have already referred show the beginning of the process.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

He places the Azilian age at 5500 B.C., the middle of the Magdalenian age somewhere about 8000 B.C.,

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Thus the Lower Paleolithic merged into the Upper; with the appearance of the Mousterian, Augrignacian, Solutrian, Magdalenian, and Azilian cultures followed the most advanced stage of the Neanderthal race before its final disappearance.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

In the cave of Mas-d'Azil, between the Magdalenian and Neolithic deposits occurs a stratum, termed Azilian, which, to some extent, bridges over the obscure transition between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Ages.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court