Crossword-Solution: AURIGNACIAN 11 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Sollas) (3) 30,000 or 40,000 years ago for the first tool-using men (homo sapiens) of the Chellean Age (palaeolithic), 15,000 for the rock-paintings and inscriptions of the Aurignacian and Magdalenian peoples, and 5,000 years ago for the first actual historical records that have come down to us, we may perhaps get something like a proportion between the different periods.

The stages of Palaeolithic culture now recognised are as follows:-- Azilian Magdalenian Solutrean Aurignacian Mousterian Acheulean Chellean Strepyan Mesvinian.

Mousterian or Neanderthal man appears to have become extinct, possibly having been exterminated by a migration of the more highly developed Aurignacian race, which may be regarded as the ancestor of modern man in Europe.

Hence it appears that our classification will in the near future have to undergo revision, since the stages of culture from Aurignacian to Azilian show a much closer affinity to the Neolithic than they do to the earlier Palaeolithic.

Sages will be interested to learn that Professor Koken, of Tübingen, in a learned pamphlet, lays it down that these flints of Gafsa belong to the Mesvinian, Strepyian, Præchellean--to say nothing of the Mousterian, Aurignacian, Solutrean, Magdalenian, and other types.