Magdalenian

alternative Madelenian

1. not comparableRelating to the late Paleolithic culture typical of La Madeleine, c. 17000 to 12000 BCE.

   The Cave of Lascaux became the world's most celebrated museum of Magdalenian art and as much an icon of the Pleistocene as mammoths and Neanderthals.

   2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 8, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN

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   As the Sistine Chapel expresses the flowering of the culture of the Renaissance, so Lascaux expresses the flowering of the culture of the Magdalenians.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 120

plural Magdalenians · alternative Madelenian

1. A person of the Magdalenian culture.

   Whether or not we believe in astrology is irrelevant; the question is, did the Magdalenians?

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130

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   The Magdalenians hunted a wide variety of prey, including horses, aurochs and fish, and are known for their highly sophisticated bone artefacts […].

   2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 221