See Also: Gravette(dictionary)

Gravette (iou)



Gravette noun. Also gravette. E20.
[La Gravette, a site in SW France.]
Archaeology. Used (usu. attrib.) to designate a type of long narrow knifelike flint characteristic of the Gravettian culture (see below).
Gravettian adjective & noun (a) adjective designating or pertaining to an upper palaeolithic culture represented by remains found at La Gravette; (b) noun (a person of) the Gravettian culture: M20.