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One of the final stages of the Paleolithic. examples
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Of or pertaining to the Solutrean. examples
Of or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis. quotations examples
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
Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History
plural Solutreans
A member of a hypothetical Paleolithic people who migrated from Europe to North America in the context of the widely rejected Solutrean hypothesis. quotations examples
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[sic] to those of the the[sic] Inuits. These tribes, called Solutreans, settled in at least five separate regions surrounding Chesapeake Bay.
2018 Historically Speaking: The Solutrean MigrationArchived on 24 January 2021.