Mousterian

Mous·te·ri·an (m

-stîr

adj.

Designating or belonging to a Middle Paleolithic culture following the Acheulian, associated with Neanderthals and characterized by the use of flake tools.

[French moustérien, after Le Moustier, a cave in southwest France.]

Mousterian [muːˈstɪərɪən]

(Social Science / Archaeology) a culture characterized by flint flake tools and associated with Neanderthal man, found throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, dating from before 70 000-32 000 bc

adj

(Social Science / Archaeology) of or relating to this culture

[from French Moustérien from archaeological finds of the same period in the cave of Le Moustier, Dordogne, France]

Mousterian (m

-stîr

Relating to a Middle Paleolithic tool culture that succeeded the Acheulian, ending around 35,000 years ago and traditionally associated with Neanderthals. While Mousterian tools show improvements in stone-flaking techniques over Acheulian tools, they remain largely unchanged over long periods of time and show little of the rapid innovation and specialization that characterize tool cultures of the Upper Paleolithic associated with modern humans.

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Aurignacian
hand ax
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Middle Palaeolithic
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Paleolithic
type site

One of these levels dates to between 36,000 and 40,000 years ago and contains tools manufactured in the Mousterian cultural tradition associated with Neanderthals.

Neanderthals may have acted in much the same way as early modern ... by Asian News International

It involves Neanderthal orphans coaxed to mate by a trio of headmistressy women, Nigerian e-mail scams, time travel and psychic permeability, an invented language called Mousterian (after the Paleolithic culture that travels under that name in archeological circles), a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, and figure skating.

Catherine Sullivan: Metro Pictures by Richard, Frances / Artforum International

quot;By the Mousterian period, Neanderthal man, for instance, was not only engaged in complex adaptation to his environment, but was also engaged in complex ceremony and rite.

Pre-Neolithic Calendars (Accurate) by Robert Bruce Baird / Reference and Education community

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