The Mousterian is defined by the appearance of a method of stone-knapping or reduction known as the Levallois Technique, named after the type site in the Levallois-Perret suburb of Paris, France (Eren and Lycett, 2012). Traditionally, the Levallois Technique was dated to 300 kyr, helping to define the very beginning of the Middle Paleolithic.

02/06/2021 · Stone Tools of the Mousterian Hafted tools are stone points or blades mounted on wooden shafts and wielded as spears or perhaps bow and arrow. A typical Mousterian stone tool assemblage is primarily defined as a flake-based tool kit made using the Levallois technique, rather than later blade-based tools.

The Levallois technique far from the only method used to produce flint tools. Another was the Quina-Mousterian which saw the production of flakes suitable for scrapers from an elongated oblong nodule. A similar nodule might have one end struck off which was then used as a platform for detaching blades from along the length of the core.

The Mousterian flake tools. The Mousterian and related flake industries followed the Acheulean. A refinement of the prepared-core technique, termed Levallois, was developed during the middle to upper Acheulean.In this method, a core was craftily trimmed in such a manner that a skillfully applied last blow would detach a large preshaped flake directly usable as an implement; the …

CHOICE NEANDERTHAL MOUSTERIAN LEVALLOIS POINT SCRAPER FLAKE TOOL FROM DORDOGNE FRANCE *M427. SEE MORE MOUSTERIAN NEANDERTHAL TOOLS This authentic stone tool was fashioned by Neanderthals over 40,000 years ago out of flint, and collected from a former Neanderthal occupation rock shelter site in the Dordogne region of France, considered …

14/06/2020 · Hafted tools are stone points or blades mounted on wooden shafts and wielded as spears or perhaps bow and arrow. A typical Mousterian stone tool assemblage is primarily defined as a flake-based tool kit made using the Levallois …

Levantine Mousterian assemblages' most distinctive attribute is the use of recurrent Levallois core-reduction strategies to product triangular and subtriangular flakes (Meignen, 1995).

DESCRIPTION: Mousterian Jasper Flake Tool. This superb jasper flake tool has a fantastic range of browns and red colors. The edges are still sharp. The ventral surface has a few minor retouches. This artifact was made via the Levallois technique as evident by the very nice flake scaring pattern on the dorsal surface.

Another tool technology that has recently been credited to Neandertals is the Chatelperronian technique. This technology started from about 32,000 years ago and ended at around 30,000 years ago. The Chatelperronian does have some Mousterian features, but for the most part, many of the tools are made on well struck blades.