Mousterian - Wikipedia
The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia.
Tools and Weapons - Neandertals
The tool technology more commonly associated with the Neandertals is called Mousterian and lasts from 300,000 years ago until around 27,000 years ago. Mousterian tool kits consisted of items such as hand axes, choppers, scrapers, backed knives, denticulates, and points.
Mousterian Stone Tools - Bradshaw Foundation
Mousterian tools, including Levallois flakes, initially evaded easy classification and eventually came to be the topic of one of the classic archaeological debates of the 20th century - How should one classify Mousterian tools?
Mousterian industry | Stone Age, Neanderthals, Tools | Britannica
Mousterian industry, tool culture traditionally associated with Neanderthal man in Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa during the early Fourth (Würm) Glacial Period (c. 40,000 bc). The Mousterian tool assemblage shows flaking techniques …
Levallois technique - Wikipedia
It is part of the Mousterian stone tool industry, and was used by the Neanderthals in Europe and by modern humans in other regions such as the Levant. [2] It is named after 19th-century finds of flint tools in the Levallois-Perret suburb of Paris, France.
Stone tool - Wikipedia
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age. Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a craftsman called a flintknapper.
The Mousterian Middle Paleolithic Tool Industry - ThoughtCo
Aug 9, 2019 · The Mousterian industry is the name archaeologists have given to an ancient Middle Stone Age method of making stone tools. The Mousterian is associated with our hominid relatives the Neanderthals in Europe and Asia and both Early Modern Human and Neanderthals in …
Levallois Technique - Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Working
May 30, 2019 · Levallois, or more precisely the Levallois prepared-core technique, is the name archaeologists have given to a distinctive style of flint knapping, which makes up part of the Middle Paleolithic Acheulean and Mousterian artifact assemblages.
Taphonomic and technological analyses of Lower Palaeolithic bone tools …
Nov 23, 2022 · The adoption of soft hammers is a significant technological advance that allowed greater precision and refinement in lithic tool production usually associated with later Acheulean handaxes (Mode...
Mousterian - SpringerLink
Jan 1, 2021 · A Middle Paleolithic culture that is defined by the development of a wide variety of specialized tools made with prepared-core knapping techniques, such as spear points. It is named for the first such artifacts recovered from the lower rock shelter at Le Moustier, Dordogne, France.