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Maglemosian, a. and n.|mægləˈməʊsɪən| Also -ean. [f. prec. + -ian.] A. adj. = prec.B. n. A person of the Maglemosian culture; the culture itself.
1918in Webster Add. 1921M. C. Burkitt Prehistory xiii. 163 The first culture found is the so-called Maglemosean. 1925V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization i. 9 The Maglemosians had axes and adzes and their command over nature was thereby enormously extended. 1943J. & C. Hawkes Prehist. Brit. i. 26 The Maglemosians probably crossed the area now covered by the North Sea as fishers and fowlers. 1949W. F. Albright Archaeol. of Palestine iii. 62 If we allow the Tahunian a time spread of between one and two thousand years (say about 6000–4500 b.c.) it would have been roughly contemporary with the late Maglemosean. 1954S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures i. 14 The Star Carr discoveries in Yorkshire have shown that cultures of Maglemosean affinities were established in what is now eastern England at least as early as the beginning of Boreal times. 1970Guardian 5 Aug. 18/4 An almost complete skeleton of an elk..unearthed near Blackpool..belongs to the early mesolithic period which began around 8000 b.c... This new find is the first evidence that this maglemosian culture extended to what is now the North-west of England. |