Abbevillian, a.
(æbəˈvɪlɪən)
Also Abbevillean.
[ad. Fr. Abbevillien (H. Breuil 1932, in Préhistoire I. 125), f. the place-name Abbeville (Somme), France.]
= Chellean a. Also absol.
| [1928 G. B. Brown Art of Cave Dweller ii. 36 The so-called early ‘drift’ period is generally called the ‘Chelles’ period..though in honour to Boucher de Perthes it might well have been named after Abbeville.] 1934 L. S. B. Leakey Adam's Ancestors v. 101 L' Abbé Breuil..has suggested the substitution of the name Abbevillian for Chellean, since Chelles from which the latter name is derived is not a Chellean site. 1937 Discovery June 179/2 The Sinanthropus [industry]..belongs to the Lower Pleistocene and is attributed to the Abbevillean in the French palæolithic sequence. 1947 J. & C. Hawkes Prehist. Brit. i. 12 Contemporary with the earliest Abbevillian was the Cromer flake culture. |