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Grimaldi|grɪˈmældɪ| The name of the caves in Liguria, Italy, where the skeletons of a type of Upper Palæolithic man were found by Emile Rivière in 1872, used attrib. as in Grimaldi skull. Hence Griˈmaldian a., pertaining to or characteristic of Grimaldi man or of this culture.
1902Daily Chron. 8 May 3/3 The Grimaldi Skulls. Dr. Verneau proposes to call the skulls by the name of Grimaldi, and I presume they will henceforth be so designated. 1932Antiquity June 193 Various names, more particularly Creswellian and Grimaldian, have been given to this ‘developed’ Aurignacian [culture]. 1948[see Creswellian a.]. 1958F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 4) 301 In the layers above, upper Aurignacian stone tools become abundant, and the bone tools rarer and atypical. For this Italian facies of the Upper Palaeolithic, Vaufrey adapted Rellini's term, Grimaldian. |