Chellean

[shel-ee-uh n]

adjective

Abbevillian.

Origin of Chellean

1890–95; < French chelléen, after Chelles, France, where Paleolithic tools were unearthed; see -an

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Historical Examples of chellean

Since Chellean times all three rivers have silted up their channels.
Men of the Old Stone Age
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Acheulian, a term applied by archologists to the late stage of Chellean civilization in the Pleistocene Age.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1
Various
The Chellean implements are found in the gravels of the diluvium on the pebbly surface.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898
Various
Below, to the right, is a very primitive instrument of Chellean type, being merely a sharpened pebble.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery
L.W. King and H.R. Hall
These deposits are believed to correspond with the period of Chellean and early Acheulean industry.
Men of the Old Stone Age
Henry Fairfield Osborn

British Dictionary definitions for chellean

Chellean

noun, adjective archaeol

(no longer in technical usage) another word for Abbevillian

Word Origin for Chellean

C19: from French chelléen, from Chelles, France, where various items were found

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