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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Solutrean en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /səˈlu.tɹi.ən/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From French Solutréen, named in 1872 by Gabriel de Mortillet after a prehistoric site situated by the Rock of Solutré.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the Solutrean.
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis.
Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History:Childbirth was only suggested by these features in the Solutrean culture, but now all is made definite and explicit as she is shown seated upon the leopard throne with the divine child emerging between her legs.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 140:
Translations (2)
pl solutrejski (pertaining to the Solutrean) · fr solutréen (pertaining to the Solutrean)
wikipedia: Gabriel de Mortillet · wikipedia: Rock of Solutré
Solutrean en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /səˈlu.tɹi.ən/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From French Solutréen, named in 1872 by Gabriel de Mortillet after a prehistoric site situated by the Rock of Solutré.
Meanings
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A member of a hypothetical Paleolithic people who migrated from Europe to North America in the context of the widely rejected Solutrean hypothesis.
2018 Historically Speaking: The Solutrean Migration
It was deemed the explorers would have originated in Spain, France and Portugal. They must have traveled along the ice sheets in animal-skin boats, simlar to those of the the Inuits. These tribes, called Solutreans, settled in at least five separate regions surrounding Chesapeake Bay.
Forms
Relateds
Beringian
wikipedia: Gabriel de Mortillet · wikipedia: Rock of Solutré
Solutrean en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /səˈlu.tɹi.ən/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From French Solutréen, named in 1872 by Gabriel de Mortillet after a prehistoric site situated by the Rock of Solutré.
Meanings
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One of the final stages of the Paleolithic, c. 22000–17000 BCE.
Hypernyms
Paleolithic (stage of Paleolithic)
Translations (2)
fr Solutréen (stage of Paleolithic) · pl kultura solutrejska (stage of Paleolithic)
wikipedia: Gabriel de Mortillet · wikipedia: Rock of Solutré