Tardenoisian
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The Tardenoisian (or Beuronian) is an archaeological culture of the Epipaleolithic period from northern France and Belgium. Similar cultures are known further east in central Europe, parts of Britain.[1] and west across Spain. It is named after the Tardenois region in France, where E. Taté first discovered its characteristic artifacts in 1885.
Characteristic artifacts include trapezoid, chisel-ended arrowheads and small flint blades made by the pressure-technique.
The Tardenoisian followed the Sauveterrian, with which it was paralleled, and lasted from about 7000 BC until the Neolithic.
Notes
- ^ V. Gordon Childe, The Prehistory of Scotland, 1935, p. 20