Definitions
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- adjective Designating or belonging to a Middle Paleolithic culture following the Acheulian, associated with Neanderthals and characterized by the use of flake tools.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His culture, called Mousterian — again, after a site, Le Moustier in France — is characterized by stoneworking of quite a high order, much superior to any earlier cultural level.
Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976
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"Mousterian" tools (named for the southwestern French site Le Moustier), consisted of carefully shaped flake tools and small hand axes, almost always made from local materials.
unknown title 2009
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There he became an expert on Mousterian archaeology, named for a style of flint tools usually associated with Neanderthals.
Archaeologist Dug Beyond Artifacts Stephen Miller 2011
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Then, right before the Neanderthals disappeared, they changed from the Mousterian culture to the more elaborate Chatelperronian culture.
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When Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons met up in SW France around 45,000 years ago, the Neanderthals were still making Mousterian-type tools, pretty much like those they made 100,000 years earlier, while Cro-Magnons had much finer Aurignacian blades, along with increasingly elaborate symbolic artifacts; the wall art in Chauvet Cave has been dated to 35,000 years ago.
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I have a vague recollection that in the caves in the Mideast where the Neanderthal-early modern human cross occurred, somewhere around 100,000 years ago? human –meaning non-Neanderthal– bones were found with Mousterian-type stone tools, which was very surprising.
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This Mousterian technology, named after the Le Moustier cave in southwestern France, was highly versatile and used in various forms over a wide area of Europe, Eurasia, North Africa, and the Near East.
E. Early Homo Sapiens (c. 250,000 to c. 35,000 Years Ago) 2001
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A shovel-shaped upper incisor (a common Neandertal trait) found in an upper level and the fact that stone tools in the upper levels are Mousterian suggest that Neandertals survived in this part of Spain as late as 30,000 B.P. Before now the latest date for a Neandertal was 36,000 B.P., from St. Cesaire in France.
The Last Neandertals 1995
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This means that Neandertal makers of Mousterian tools and Aurignacian populations, probably modern humans, coexisted in Western Europe for about 10,000 years.
The Last Neandertals 1995
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Excavations at the cave have yielded Mousterian tools, a type traditionally associated with European Neandertals, and ibex bones.
The Last Neandertals 1995
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