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Azilian, a. Archæol.|əˈzɪlɪən|
[f. Azil in Mas d'Azil (dept. of Ariège, France), where discoveries were made by Ed. Piette of a primitive civilization; cf. F. époque asylienne, etc. (f. med.L. Asylum: see L'Anthropologie (1895) VI. 151).]
Of or belonging to the transition period between the palæolithic and neolithic ages. Also n.
1899A. H. Keane Man: Past & Present 30 M. Piette..states..that ‘13 out of 23 Phoenician characters were equally Azilian graphic signs’. 1919H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. I. x. §4. 60/1 For a time there were in Southern Europe drifting communities of some little known people who are called the Azilians. Ibid., These Azilian people have left behind them a multitude of pebbles, roughly daubed with markings. 1947J. & C. Hawkes Prehist. Brit. i. 22 The Azilians, who brought from the south of France a microlithic culture of Magdalenian descent. |