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Magdalenian
Geographical range
Western Europe
Period
Upper Paleolithic Mesolithic
Dates
c. 17,000 – c. 12,000 BP[a]
Type site
Abri de la Madeleine
Major sites
Cave of Altamira, Kents Cavern, Lascaux
Preceded by
Solutrean
Followed by
Azilian, Ahrensburg culture
See also: Prehistoric Europe
The Magdalenian cultures (also Madelenian; French: Magdalénien) are later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe. They date from around 17,000 to 12,000 years ago.[a] It is named after the type site of La Madeleine, a rock shelter located in the Vézère valley, commune of Tursac, in France's Dordogne department.
Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy originally termed the period L'âge du renne (the Age of the Reindeer). They conducted the first systematic excavations of the type site, publishing in 1875. The Magdalenian epoch is associated with reindeer hunters, although Magdalenian sites contain extensive evidence for the hunting of red deer, horses, and other large mammals present in Europe toward the end of the last glacial period. The culture was geographically widespread, and later Magdalenian sites stretched from Portugal in the west to Poland in the east, and as far north as France, the Channel Islands, England, and Wales. It is the third epoch of Gabriel de Mortillet's cave chronology system, corresponding roughly to the Late Pleistocene.
Besides La Madeleine, the chief stations of the epoch are Les Eyzies, Laugerie-Basse, and Gorges d'Enfer in the Dordogne; Grotte du Placard in Charente and others in south-west France.
^"The Magdalenian". Les Eyzies Tourist Info. Archived from the original on 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
^Enloe 2001.
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The Magdalenian cultures (also Madelenian; French: Magdalénien) are later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe. They date...
"Magdalenian Girl" or "Magdalenian Woman" (French: Femme magdalénienne) is the common name for a human skeleton, dated to the boundary between the Upper...
Derbyshire by Dorothy Garrod in 1926. It is also known as the British Late Magdalenian. According to Andreas Maier: "In current research, the Creswellian and...
millennium. More than a century ago, it first became clear how much of the Magdalenian and Azilian underwent change in Western Europe. Since that time, these...
The middle Magdalenian shows less abundance of findings. The upper Magdalenian is closely related to that of southern France (Magdalenian V and VI), being...
the paintings is now usually estimated at around 17,000 years (early Magdalenian). Because of the outstanding prehistoric art in the cave, Lascaux was...
millennium BC. More than a century ago, it first became clear how much of the Magdalenian and Azilian underwent change in Western Europe. Since that time, these...
2012). "The Magdalenian in central and southern Portugal: Human ecology at the end of the Pleistocene". Quaternary International. The Magdalenian Settlement...
The abri de Cap Blanc is a prehistoric limestone rock shelter with Magdalenian animal sculptures. It is in the Marquay commune on the right bank of the...
largely replaced populations associated with the Magdalenian culture about 14,000 years ago. The Magdalenian-associated individuals descended from populations...
explain the reason for his departure, he picks up from a reference to Magdalenian cultures by Dan and slowly, and somewhat reluctantly, reveals that he...
thrown and those designed to be used in hand-to-hand combat. By the Magdalenian period (c. 15,000–9500 BC), spear-throwers similar to the later atlatl...
Aurignacian era, and the Venus of Monruz dates back about 11,000 years to the Magdalenian. Such figurines were carved from soft stone (such as steatite, calcite...
termed the British Late Magdalenian) did shortly after in the British Isles. Around 12,500 BC, the Würm glaciation ended. Magdalenian culture persisted until...
was spoken as a single language around this time period. 18 kya: The Magdalenian culture appears in Europe. They are responsible for some of the most...
older succession dates back to the Magdalenian VI and the younger one to the Azilian. The succession of the Magdalenian VI is characterised by the following...
They are about 18,000 – 16,000 years old, from Late Solutrean to Middle Magdalenian. La Marche (France) – due to the style the legitimacy of the cave paintings...
to a European woman who lived between 13,000 and 11,000 BCE, in the Magdalenian period. Nonetheless, molar impaction was relatively rare prior to the...
Retrieved 15 April 2022. Maier, Andreas (2015). The Central European Magdalenian: Regional Diversity and Internal Variability. Springer Publishing. p...
Santimamiñe, Koskobilo, Isturitz, Hareguy, Ermittia and Amalda. The Magdalenian culture can be found between around 15,000 and 8500 BCE and is widespread...
between 35,000 and 11,000 years ago (Aurignacian, Gravettian, Solutrean, Magdalenian, Azilian). In 2008, they were collectively designated a World Heritage...
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