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Campignian

[kam-peen-yuh n]
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  1. of or relating to a Mesolithic and Neolithic technological facies characterized by picks and tranchets.
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Origin of Campignian

1920–25; < French campignien, after Le Campigny, the type site (Seine-Maritime, France); see -an
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  • These Campignian remains are hardly widely enough diffused or sufficiently definite to give name to a distinct epoch.

    The New Stone Age in Northern Europe

    John M. Tyler