Fertile Crescent: Europe: Africa: Siberia: Périgordian is a term for several distinct but related Upper Palaeolithic cultures which are thought by some archaeologists to represent a contiguous tradition.
Thought to have existed between c.35,000 BP and c.20,000 BP[2] the Perigordian was theorized by prehistorians (namely Denis Peyrony [fr]).
[3] The earliest culture in the tradition is the Châtelperronian[4] which is thought to have produced denticulate tools and flint knives.
It is argued that this was superseded by the Gravettian with its Font Robert points and Noailles burins.
[1] Critics have pointed out that no continuous sequence of Périgordian occupation has yet been found, and that the tradition requires it to have co-existed separately from the Aurignacian industry rather than being differing industries that existed before and afterwards.