AZILIAN Definition & Meaning

Azilian

[ uh-zeel-yuhn, -ee-uhn, uh-zil- ]

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adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of an early Mesolithic culture of southern France and northern Spain.

Azilian

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noun

a Palaeolithic culture of Spain and SW France that can be dated to the 10th millennium bc , characterized by flat bone harpoons and schematically painted pebbles

adjective

of or relating to this culture

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Azilian¹

1895–1900; named after Mas d' Azil, village in Ariège, S France, near where remains of the culture were found; -ian

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Origin of Azilian¹

C19: named after Mas d' Azil, France, where artefacts were found

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The area where the stone was found was used as a hunting site by the prehistoric Azilian culture.

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He places the Azilian age at 5500 B.C., the middle of the Magdalenian age somewhere about 8000 B.C.,

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Yet E. Piette, who groups these pebbles, painted with peroxide of iron, in the four categories of numerals, symbols, pictographs, and alphabetical characters, states, in reference to these last, that 13 out of 23 Phoenician characters were equally Azilian graphic signs.

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In the cave of Mas-d'Azil, between the Magdalenian and Neolithic deposits occurs a stratum, termed Azilian, which, to some extent, bridges over the obscure transition between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Ages.

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The Azilian rock pictures to which we have already referred show the beginning of the process.

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