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Production of points & spearheads from a flint stone core, Levallois technique, Mousterian culture, Tabun Cave, Israel, 250,000–50,000 BP. Israel Museum Cave entrance of Raqefet Cave, where Mousterian remains have been found. The European Mousterian is the product of Neanderthals. It existed roughly from 160,000 to 40,000 BP. [6]
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 Mask of la Roche-Cotard, also known as the "Mousterian Protofigurine", is an artifact dated to around 75,000 years ago, [1] in the Mousterian period. It was found in 1975 [ 2 ] in the entrance of a cave named La Roche-Cotard, territory of the commune of Langeais ( Indre-et-Loire ), on the banks of the river Loire .
Although no Neanderthal fossils were ever discovered, stone tools found at Byzovaya, that date to 33,000 years ago are attributed to the Mousterian culture. [ 2 ] Indigenous people, that migrated in the prehistoric era spoke languages of the Uralic and Turkic language families, such as the Komi , Udmurts , Khants , Mansi ; Samoyeds – Nenets ...
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.
Hand axes found in Africa come from both the Aterian culture of North Africa and the Stillbay culture from East Africa. [86] Both these cases relate to Mousterian cultures, although they are relatively late and have their own style, at the end of the so-called African Middle Stone Age. In both cases a variety of objects are found, triangular ...
It follows the Acheulian and precedes the Mousterian. It is also called the Mugharan Tradition [1] or the Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex (AYCC). [2] The Acheulo-Yabrudian complex has three stone-tool traditions, chronologically: the Acheulo-Yabrudian, the Yabrudian and the Pre-Aurignacian or Amudian.