Gravettian
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The Gravettian toolmaking culture was a specific archaeological industry of the European Upper Palaeolithic era prevalent before the last glacial epoch. It is named after the type site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France where its characteristic tools were first found and studied. The earliest signs of the culture were found at Kozarnika, Bulgaria. One of the earliest artifacts is also found in eastern Crimea (Buran-Kaya) (see Crimean Mountains) dated 32,000 years ago. It lasted until 22,000 years ago. Where found, it succeeded the artifacts datable to the Aurignacian culture.
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See also
- Aurignacian culture
- Animal Usage in the Gravettian
- Earth's Children series
- Last Glacial Maximum
- Upper Paleolithic
- Perigordian
- Synoptic table of the principal old world prehistoric cultures
- Solutrean
- Venus figurines
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