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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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SOLUTRIAN

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

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