Definitions for Chellean

Chellean Chel·le·an

Spelling: [shel-ee-uh n]
IPA: /ˈʃɛl i ən/

Chellean is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in Chellean (aceehlln).

Definitions for Chellean

adjective

  1. Abbevillian.

Origin of Chellean

1890-95; French chelléen, after Chelles, France, where Paleolithic tools were unearthed; see -an

Examples for Chellean

Below, to the right, is a very primitive instrument of Chellean type, being merely a sharpened pebble.

The Chellean implements are found in the gravels of the diluvium on the pebbly surface.

From the published figures, they seem to correspond to the earlier Acheulean or to the Chellean type.

The type station of the Chellean culture is somewhat east of the present town of Chelles.

Acheulian, a term applied by archologists to the late stage of Chellean civilization in the Pleistocene Age.

Since Chellean times all three rivers have silted up their channels.

The Chellean implements, which precede those of Mousterian type, are commonly associated with a fauna of southern affinities.

These deposits are believed to correspond with the period of Chellean and early Acheulean industry.

This region was undoubtedly favorable to the flint workers of Pre-Chellean and Chellean times.

The Chellean and the following Acheulean industry was carried on here on a very extensive scale.

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