Gravettianadj.n.

1938 D. A. E. Garrod in Proc. Prehistoric Soc. IV. 23 I would suggest for these two very closely related levels the names of Lower Gravettian and Upper Gravettian respectively.

1938 D. A. E. Garrod in Proc. Prehistoric Soc. IV. 23 The theory of an eastern centre of dispersion for the Gravettian.

1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past ix. 289 From the beginning of LGl₂ onwards..the archaeological succession is clear. It is a surprisingly rapid one. While the middle Aurignacian may have lasted into this time, upper Aurignacian or Gravettian dominates, both in the west (‘western’ Gravettian) and in the east (Predmost or ‘eastern’ Gravettian).

1952 V. G. Childe New Light on Most Anc. East (ed. 4) ii. 19 Even in Africa Minor great heaps of small shells in the deserts and rock shelters yield blade industries..Caspian and Oranian—comparable to the Châtelperronian and Gravettian of Europe.

1953 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. Today 173/2 It is possible that further excavations in the plains region of southern Russia will reveal that the Gravettian was derived from this source.

1967 Listener 30 Mar. 426/1 Among the Upper Paleolithic tools which appear first in these two Greek caves are narrow flint blades which have been intentionally blunted down one side, and they are said to belong to a culture called the Gravettian.

1940 V. G. Childe Prehist. Communities Brit. Isles i. 13 Gravettians whose kinsmen and ancestors had specialized in hunting big game.

1947 J. Hawkes & C. Hawkes Prehist. Brit. (ed. 2) i. 17 The next stray bands to arrive were Gravettians, a people with a rather more northerly range than their predecessors, who in south Russia and else~where had used their human wits to prey successfully upon the formidable mammoth herds.