Abbevillian

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Ab·be·vil·li·an (

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adj.

Of or relating to the earliest Paleolithic archaeological sites in Europe, characterized by bifacial stone hand axes.

[After Abbeville, a city of northern France.]

Abbevillian [æbˈvɪlɪən -jən] Archaeol

(Social Science / Archaeology) the period represented by Lower Palaeolithic European sites containing the earliest hand axes, dating from the Mindel glaciation See also Acheulian

adj

(Social Science / Archaeology) of or relating to this period

[after Abbeville, where the stone tools were discovered]

Abbevillian (

-v

Relating to the earliest Paleolithic archaeological sites in Europe, characterized by bifacial stone hand axes.

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