Swiderianadj.

1922 Wiadomosci Archeologiczne VII. 96 Dans la formation III on trouve des documents archéologiques se rapportant aux industries magdalénienne moyenne, swidérienne, azilienne.]

1936 G. Clark Mesolithic Settlem. N. Europe ii. 62 Two alternative names have been put forward..to label a culture..centering on the valleys of the Vistula and the Bug-Swiderian, after the site at Swidry..and Chlebowician... Numerous Swiderian sites are known from Poland.

1939 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 3) i. 4 The Swiderian culture, represented by assemblages of small flint tools collected from sand-dunes in Russia and Poland, sometimes under fossil turf-lines of Atlantic age, is characterized by small asymmetrically tanged-points..used presumably as arrow-heads.

1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xvi. 270 Swiderian, Poland, Rumania; smallish, tanged blades; early Mesolithic—in fact apparently late Palaeolithic also.

1951 A. Coates Prelude to Hist. x. 253 To the east several cultures, the Ahrensburg..in north Germany, Lyngby in Jutland and Swiderian in north Poland, derive from the East Gravettian of the upper palaeolithic.

1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 518/2 Swiderian, a culture found in Poland, with the tranchet ax a typical tool. Its remains, mostly kitchen middens, resemble the Campignian culture, which is found further south.