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Creswellian, a. Archæol.|krɛzˈwɛlɪən|
[f. the name of Creswell Crags in Derbyshire (see quot. 1926) + -ian.]
Pertaining or belonging to a cultural period of the Mesolithic or late Palæolithic, represented only in Britain and roughly contemporary with the Magdalenian period. Also ellipt. as n.
1926D. A. E. Garrod Upper Palaeolithic Age iii. 194, I would suggest that this industry is sufficiently well characterized to deserve a name..to differentiate it..from the classical Magdalenian of France..[and] the true Upper Aurignacian. I propose tentatively ‘Creswellian’, since Creswell Crags is the station in which it is found in greatest abundance and variety. 1948Kroeber Anthropol. (ed. 2) xvi. 661 Some authors..prefer to give local designations to these marginal local phases contemporary with the Magdalenian period of France. Such are Creswellian, Grimaldian and (late) East Gravettian for England, Italy and the Danube respectively. 1969K. P. Oakley Frameworks for dating Fossil Man (ed. 3) ii. ii. 167 Other Epi-Gravettian cultures developed contemporaneously in various parts of Europe, notably the Creswellian in Britain. |