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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 Middle Palaeolithic period (c. 250,000 – c. 48,000 BCE) is represented in the Levant by the Mousterian culture, known from numerous sites (both caves and open-air sites) through the region. The chronological subdivision of the Mousterian is based on the stratigraphic sequence of the
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 ...
English: Mousterian Culture Stone Spearheads 250,000-50,000 Israel (detail) Date: 6 May 2019: Source: This file has been extracted from another file
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.
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.