The term Creswellian appeared for the first time in 1926 in Dorothy Garrod's The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain.
This was the first academic publication by the woman who  became in 1939  the first woman ever elected as a professor at Cambridge.
It is also the first monograph about the Upper Paleolithic of Britain at the national level and it remained the only one on the subject for half a century.
Garrod suggested that the British variant of the Magdalenian industry is different enough to create a specific name:
I propose tentatively "Creswellian", since Creswell Crags is the station in which it is found in greatest abundance and variety.

— Dorothy Garrod, The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1926, p. 194.

The definition of Creswellian was refined since then and now refers exclusively, in the British context, to the Late Magdalenian-style industry.
The term Creswellian appeared for the first time in 1926 in Dorothy Garrod's The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain. This was the first academic publication by the woman who  became in 1939  the first woman ever elected as a professor at Cambridge. It is also the first monograph about the Upper Paleolithic of Britain at the national level and it remained the only one on the subject for half a century. Garrod suggested that the British variant of the Magdalenian industry is different enough to create a specific name:
I propose tentatively "Creswellian", since Creswell Crags is the station in which it is found in greatest abundance and variety.
— Dorothy Garrod, The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1926, p. 194.
The definition of Creswellian was refined since then and now refers exclusively, in the British context, to the Late Magdalenian-style industry.
Creswellian culture