History
The Creswellian appeared for the first time in 1926 under the pen of Dorothy Garrod in The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain. This is the first academic publication of the woman who became in 1939 the first woman ever elected as a professor at Cambridge. It is also the first monograph about the Upper Paleolithic of Britain at the national level and it remained the only one on the subject for half a century. In this study, Dorothy Garrod is led to consider that the British variant of the Magdalenian industry is different enough to create a specific name:
"I propose tentatively "Creswellian", since Creswell Crags is the station in which it is found in greatest abundance and variety." — Dorothy Garrod, The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1926, p. 194.The definition of Creswellian was refined since then and now refers exclusively, in the British context, to the Late Magdalenian-style industry. However, its relevance is questioned by those who, like Jacobi and Pettitt, prefer to absorb the Creswellian in the Late Magdalenian.
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