Aurignacn.
attributive. = Aurignacian adj.
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dark ages1842
Iron Age1845
iron period1847
stone period1849
lithic age1862
Aurignac1863
stone age1864
three ages1866
Palaeolithic1869
Middle Stone Age1870
prehistory1871
stone era1873
Siwalik1877
Neolithic1878
hemera1893
Mesvinian1909
Mesolithic1931
Abbevillian1937
Devensian1968
Creswellian1969
dryas1975
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man x. 192 The Aurignac cave adds no new species to the list of extinct quadrupeds.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 336 [The bones of] other extinct mammals, alongside of human remains and works of art, in the famous Aurignac caves of the Pyrenees.
1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle ii. 61 The Aurignac man could spare us better bones.
1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past ix. 299 The foyer..contains Aurignac bone points.
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