Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. [ancient European styles and periods]
7. [European Upper Paleolithic styles and periods]
8. [Western European Upper Paleolithic styles and periods]

Narrower term/s

• Lower Perigordian
• Upper Perigordian

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the period of prehistoric tool making that followed the Mousterian industry in Upper Paleolithic Europe. It is named after a region in south central France. It overlaps somewhat with the Aurignacian industry, and was succeeded by the Solutrean. The Perigordian industry is characterized by denticulate Mousterian-style tools, stone knives with one sharp edge and one flat edge, and various scrapers, borers, burins, small blades, and pendants.