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Mousterian is a name given by archaeologists to a style of predominantly flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and dating to the Middle Paleolithic, the middle part of the Old Stone Age.
↑ Pliocene (before Homo)
Lower Paleolithic (c. 3.3 Ma – 300 ka)
Middle Paleolithic (300–45 ka)
Upper Paleolithic (40–10 ka)
The culture was named after the type site of Le Moustier, a rock shelter in the Dordogne region of France.[6] Similar flintwork has been found all over unglaciated Europe and also the Near East and North Africa. Handaxes, racloirs and points constitute the industry; sometimes a Levallois technique or another prepared-core technique was employed in making the flint flakes.[7]
Mousterian tools that have been found in Europe were made by Neanderthals and date from between 600,000 BP and 40,000 BP[1] Some assemblages, namely those from Pech de l’Aze, are exceptionally small Levallois and other prepared core types, causing some researchers to suggest that these flakes take advantage of greater grip strength possessed by Neanderthal physiology.[8] In North Africa and the Near East, Mouseterian tools were also produced by anatomically modern humans. In the Levant, for example, assemblages produced by Neanderthals are indistinguishable from those made by Qafzeh type modern humans.[9] It may be an example of acculturation of modern humans by Neanderthals because the culture after 130,000 years reached the Levant from Europe (the first Mousterian industry appears there 200,000 BP) and the modern Qafzeh type humans appear in the Levant another 100,000 years later.
Possible variants are Denticulate, Charentian (Ferrassie & Quina) named after the Charente region,[10] Typical and the Acheulean Tradition (MTA) - Type-A and Type-B.[11] The Industry continued alongside the new Châtelperronian industry during the 45,000-40,000 BP period.[12]
Neolithic, Mesolithic, Paleolithic, Pottery, Bronze Age
Stone Age, Oldowan, Zambia, Mousterian, Culture
Science, Computer science, Transhumanism, Engineering, Internet
Aurignacian, Stone Age, Gravettian, Mousterian, Technology
Human, Israel, Altai Mountains, Eurasia, University of Cambridge
Technology, Mousterian, Stone Age, Prehistoric art, Prehistoric technology
Upper Paleolithic, Stone Age, Lower Paleolithic, France, Pleistocene