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Uzbekistan has sites of Mousterian culture, including Teshik-Tash. [12] Turkmenistan also has Mousterian relics. [12] Siberia has many sites with Mousterian-style implements, e.g. Denisova Cave. [12] Israel is one of the places where remains of both Neandertals and Homo sapiens sapiens have been found in association with Mousterian artifacts. [13]
The Mousterian tool culture is named after Le Moustier, which was first excavated from 1863 by the Englishman Henry Christy and the Frenchman Édouard Lartet. In 1979, Le Moustier was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List along with other nearby archeological sites as part of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère ...
Production of points & spearheads from a flint stone core, Levallois technique, Mousterian culture, Tabun Cave, Israel, 250,000–50,000 BP. Israel Museum The Levallois technique of flint- knapping The Levallois technique ( IPA: [lÉ™.va.lwa] ) is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of stone knapping developed around 250,000 to ...
The Jabroudian culture is a cultural phase of the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant. It broadly belongs to the Mousterian culture, and shows connections with the European facies La Quina . One of the most noticeable elements is the so-called Amoudian elements, that are the first known stone blades ever.
The Acheulo-Yabrudian complex is a complex of archaeological cultures in the Levant at the end of the Lower Palaeolithic. It follows the Acheulian and precedes the Mousterian. It is also called the Mugharan Tradition [1] or the Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex (AYCC). [2]
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Articles relating to the Mousterian techno-complex (archaeological industry) of stone tools. It is associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and Western Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the latter part of the Middle Paleolithic, the middle of the West Eurasian Old ...
The manner of production is a solid continuation of the Mousterian but the ivory adornments found in association are similar to those made by the Aurignacian. [4] The technological refinement of the Châtelperronian and neighbouring Uluzzian in Central-Southern Italy is often argued to be the product of cultural influence from H. sapiens that ...