Magdalenian

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Magdalene +‎ -ian, after the Magdalene Shelter, an archaeological site in the Dordogne département of South-Western France.

Magdalenian (not comparable)

Relating to the late Paleolithic culture typical of La Madeleine.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 120:
  As the Sistine Chapel expresses the flowering of the culture of the Renaissance, so Lascaux expresses the flowering of the culture of the Magdalenians.
- 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 8, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
  The Cave of Lascaux became the world's most celebrated museum of Magdalenian art and as much an icon of the Pleistocene as mammoths and Neanderthals.

relating to the late Paleolithic culture

Magdalenian (plural Magdalenians)

A person of the Magdalenian culture.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
  Whether or not we believe in astrology is irrelevant; the question is, did the Magdalenians?
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 221:
  The Magdalenians hunted a wide variety of prey, including horses, aurochs and fish, and are known for their highly sophisticated bone artefacts […] .