The Creswellian is a British Upper Palaeolithic culture named after the type site of Creswell Crags in Derbyshire by Dorothy Garrod in 1926. It dates to between c. 12,500 and 12,000 BP and was replaced by the Mesolithic Maglemosian culture. It has parallels with the Federmesser and Hamburgian cultures of central Europe and the Magdelanian culture of southern Europe. The diagnostic tools are trapezoidal backed blades called Cheddar points and variant forms known as Creswell points as well as smal… (More on Creswellian)