Solutrean

1. One of the final stages of the Paleolithic, c. 22000–17000 BCE.

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to the Solutrean.
2. not comparableOf or pertaining to the Solutrean material culture or the Solutrean hypothesis.

   Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats.

   2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History

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   Childbirth was only suggested by these features in the Solutrean culture, but now all is made definite and explicit as she is shown seated upon the leopard throne with the divine child emerging between her legs.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 140

plural Solutreans

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

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   2018 Historically Speaking: The Solutrean Migration It was deemed the explorers would have originated in Spain, France and Portugal. They must have traveled along the ice sheets in animal-skin boats, simlar to those of the the Inuits. These tribes, called Solutreans, settled in at least five separate regions surrounding Chesapeake Bay.