Solutrean

Meanings

Proper Noun

• One of the final stages of the Paleolithic.

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to the Solutrean.
• Of or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis.

Noun

• A member of a hypothetical Paleolithic people who migrated from Europe to North America in the context of the widely rejected Solutrean hypothesis.

Related

Broader meaning words

• Paleolithic

Origin

• From French Solutréen, named in 1872 by Gabriel de Mortillet after a prehistoric site situated by the Rock of Solutré.