|ȯrə̇n|yāshən adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: French aurignacien, from Aurignac, commune in Haute-Garonne dept., France, near which there are caves with paleolithic remains + French -ien -ian
: of or belonging to the epoch of the Upper Paleolithic period following the Mousterian and preceding the Solutrean that was characterized by stone artifacts some of Mousterian type but smaller and more finely made, figures and other artifacts of bone, and paintings and engravings on walls and bone