| 单词 | reindeer period |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreindeer period reindeer period n. [after either French âge du renne (É. Lartet 1861, in Annales des sciences naturelles 15 231) or époque du renne (1864 (in another work by É. Lartet) or earlier)] a loosely-defined period during the Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe, characterized by peoples who lived by hunting reindeer. ΚΠ 1864 Times 25 Mar. 10/5 These specimens are regarded by M. Lartet as being the earliest known examples of engraving on stone, by primeval man, of the reindeer period in Europe. 1870 Nature 20 Jan. 318/2 No trace of man's existence during the reindeer-period has been ascertained in North Germany. 1881 J. Geikie Prehist. Europe 101 M. Dupont recognises two stages in the Palæolithic Period, one of which is called the Mammoth period, and the other, which is the more recent, the Reindeer period. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. ii. 45 The cave-drawings attributed to the neolithic men of the reindeer period. 1995 Amer. Anthropologist 97 458/2 In 1861 Lartet proposed a paleontological division of the Quaternary into the Cave Bear period, the Elephant and Rhinoceros period, and the Reindeer period. < as lemmas |
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