Gravettian

English

Etymology

Coined by English archaeologist Dorothy Garrod in 1938, named after the site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France, where the characteristic tools were first found and studied.

Adjective

Gravettian (not comparable)

1. (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 BCE.

   Coordinate term: Solutrean

   • 2020, Malcolm C. Lillie, Inna D. Potekhina, editors, Prehistoric Ukraine: From the First Hunters to the First Farmers, Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 73:

     Recently, two additional Gravettian sites, Troyanove 4 and Ozerove, have been explored in central Ukraine (Zaliznyak et al. 2007).

Derived terms

• Epigravettian

Translations

Translations

• French: gravettien (fr)