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SOLUTRIAN EPOCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 377 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPOCH , in See also:archaeology, the name given by G. de See also:Mortillet to the second See also:stage of his See also:system of See also:cave-See also:chronology, and that synchronous with the third See also:division of the See also:Quaternary See also:period. It is so called from the Solutre Cave, See also:Macon See also:district, See also:Saone-et-See also:Loire. The period is characterized by two See also:series of chipped flints, one modelled on the See also:laurel-See also:leaf, the other on that of the See also:willow. Those of the first series are artistically chipped upon the two faces and the end, and are readily distinguishable from the flints of the preceding See also:Mousterian epoch. Large thin See also:spear-heads; scrapers with edge not on the See also:side but on the end; See also:flint knives and saws, but all still chipped, not ground or polished; See also:long spear-points, with tang and See also:shoulder on one side only, are also characteristic implements of this epoch. See also:Bone or See also:horn, too, was used. The Solutrian See also:work exhibits a transitory stage of See also:art between the flint implements of the Mousterian and the bone implements of the See also:Madelenian epochs. The See also:fauna includes the See also:horse, See also:reindeer, See also:mammoth, cave See also:lion, See also:rhinoceros, See also:bear and urus. Solutrian " finds " have been also made in the caves of See also:Les Eyzies and Laugerie Haute, and in the See also:Lower Beds of See also:Cresswell Cave (See also:Derbyshire).

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