Solutrean

//səˈlu.tɹi.ən// adj, name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the Solutrean. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis. not-comparable

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    One of the final stages of the Paleolithic, c. 22000–17000 BCE.

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"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."

Etymology

From French Solutréen, named in 1872 by Gabriel de Mortillet after a prehistoric site situated by the Rock of Solutré.

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