a. [f. the place-name Solutré in France (dep. Saône-et-Loire).] Of or belonging to, characterized by, the special type of flint implements found in a cave at Solutré; belonging to the same period as these.
1888. T. Wilson, in Smithsonian Rep. U.S. Nat. Museum, 615. It was in the working of the flint to make these objects that the best art of the Solutrian epoch is manifested. Ibid. One of the fine, Solutrian, leaf-shaped implements.
1896. Keane, Ethnology, 87, margin. Solutrian or Second Cave Age.
1904. Windle, Rem. Prehistoric Ape Eng., iii. 57. Solutrean objects underlie those of the Madelainean time at Laugerie Haute.
