Sauveterrianadj.

1940 C. F. C. Hawkes Prehist. Found. Europe iii. 50 We are..in the region of Azilian tradition, but the industry might almost equally well be a ‘Middle Tardenoisian’, with its crescentic and angular microliths and its moderate but not excessive development of micro-burin technique, and the French now propose to call such industries in general Sauveterrian, reserving the name Tardenoisian in a strict sense for the later stage.

1940 C. F. C. Hawkes Prehist. Found. Europe iii. 66 In Britain,..microlithic technique was never carried beyond the Middle Tardenoisian or Sauveterrian stage.

1952 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 18 109 Since then, the discovery of mesolithic tools which preceded the Tardenoisian on the Causses west of the Massif Central has added ‘Sauveterrian’ to the terminology.

1963 E. S. Wood Collins Field Guide Archaeol. iv. 50 The character of the mesolithic of all but the south-east and east of England shows affinities with the French mesolithic culture called Sauveterrian.

1963 E. S. Wood Collins Field Guide Archaeol. iv. 103 The mesolithic people of the Sauveterrian were particularly fond of rock-shelters.

1975 Nature 3 July 33/2 This radiocarbon evidence from the Pennines indicates conclusively that simple ‘broad blade’ microlithic industries identical to those of Thatcham and Star Carr precede ‘narrow blade’ (sometimes termed ‘Sauveterrian’) industries with small scalene triangles and rod-like microliths.

1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles v. 92 On the high moors of north-east Yorkshire another group of industries, also Mesolithic.., occurs. These..contain..a profusion of microliths. The name Sauveterrian—after the type site in France of Sauveterre-la-Lémance—has been applied to them.