Later, in Japan, spearfishing with poles ( harpoons ) became widespread in palaeolithic times, especially during the Solutrean and Magdalenian periods.
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The Solutrean may be seen as a transitory stage between the flint implements of the Mousterian and the bone implements of the Magdalenian epochs.
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This was first known specimen of Solutrean art, and attested to the culture of prehistoric man in the same way as cave paintings.
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He also noted the Solutrean had art capabilities not found in Clovis culture and that there is no evidence the culture had significant marine skills.
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Still, observers said, the older Solutrean projectile points from Europe and the more recent Clovis points from the Americas closely resemble each other.
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The cave has no particular geological significance but it is important for the wildlife and archaeological sites from the Solutrean and Magdalenian periods located there.
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The sometimes called Parpall?" Magdalenian " ( extended by all the south-east ) is actually a continuity of the local Gravetto-Solutrean.
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Bradley and Dennis Stanford, the Smithsonian Institution's anthropology department chairman, note similarities in Solutrean projectile points and those used by the Clovis people.
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Throughout this region, which underwent similar cultural developments with some local variation, Aurignacian culture was successively replaced by Gravettian, Solutrean, and Magdalenian cultures.
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Although the Solutrean bifaces look similar to the Clovis technology, lacking only the flute, they are separated in time by about 5, 000 years.
