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Louis period styles

(Encyclopedia)Louis period styles, 1610–1793, succession of modes of interior decoration and architecture that established France as a leading influence in the decorative arts. The restraint of the later Louis ...

period, in geologic time

(Encyclopedia)period, unit of time on the geologic timescale. Periods are shorter than an era and longer than an epoch. Periods are of variable length, generally lasting tens of millions of years, with characterist...

Magdalenian

(Encyclopedia)Magdalenian: see Paleolithic period. ...

Clactonian

(Encyclopedia)Clactonian: see Paleolithic period. ...

Abbevillian

(Encyclopedia)Abbevillian: see Paleolithic period. ...

Stone Age

(Encyclopedia)Stone Age: see Paleolithic period; Mesolithic period; Neolithic period. ...

Old Stone Age

(Encyclopedia)Old Stone Age: see Paleolithic period. ...

Mousterian

(Encyclopedia)Mousterian or Levalloiso-Mousterian: see Paleolithic period. ...

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