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Gravettian
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English
Etymology
en English archaeologist Dorothy Garrod 1 1938, named after the site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France, where the characteristic tools were first found and studied.
Adjective
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en archaeology 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 .
en Solutrean
en 2020 Malcolm C. Lillie; Inna D. Potekhina Prehistoric Ukraine: From the First Hunters to the First Farmers Oxbow Books 9781789254617 73 https://books.google.com/books?id=mooFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&dq=%22Gravettian%22&hl=&cd=5&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Gravettian%22&f=false Recently, two additional Gravettian sites, Troyanove 4 and Ozerove, have been explored in central Ukraine (Zaliznyak et al. 2007).
Derived terms
en Epigravettian
Translations
French: fr gravettien
en terms derived from toponyms