magdalenian in English
adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting the final Paleolithic culture in Europe, following the Solutrean and dated to about 17,000–11,500 years ago. It is characterized by a range of bone and horn tools, and by highly developed cave art.
By 1869 his scheme for European prehistory was fairly well elaborated and included: the Thenasian (for the now obsolete Eolithic), Chellean, Mousterian, Solutrean, Aurignacian, Magdalenian , and Robenhausian.
Use "magdalenian" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "magdalenian" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "magdalenian", or refer to the context using the word "magdalenian" in the English Dictionary.
1. Magdalenian-era cave painting of a bison, Altamira…
2. While the animal remains from the Middle Palaeolithic show that the people practised opportunistic and occasional hunting, exploiting all the hoofed animals in their ecosystem, later we see more specialised hunting, and this becomes even more accentuated in the Magdalenian era.