The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology


Abbevillian

Abbevillian [CP].
Now obsolete, this term was originally proposed by Abbé Breuil in AD 1939 to describe the pre-ACHEULIAN flint industries of western Europe on the basis of material from ABBEVILLE in France. Also known as the Chellean.

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