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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Atlas mountains; especially to a style of Paleolithic stone tool from this region.

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Examples

  • The dates obtained on other sites with similar stone tools (Aterian) suggest the site may be between 60,000 and 90,000 years old.

    More than Ornament 2006

  • The fingernail-size shells, already known from 82,000-year-old Aterian deposits in the cave, have now been found in even earlier layers.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • The newest evidence, in a paper by the authors to be published in the next few weeks in the Journal of Quaternary Science Reviews, shows that the Aterian in Morocco dates back to at least 110,000 years ago.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • The fingernail-size shells, already known from 82,000-year-old Aterian deposits in the cave, have now been found in even earlier layers.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • As well as Blombos, there are now at least four other Aterian sites in Morocco with Nassarius shell beads.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • As well as Blombos, there are now at least four other Aterian sites in Morocco with Nassarius shell beads.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • A date of 240 ka was reported in the place the end of the Aterian at 20 ka, on same paper for a crystal rich pumiceous the basis of 14C on lacustrine carbonate lapilli tu ff overlying '' Kenya Still Bay '' arte - (Wengler & Vernet, 1992; Wengler, 1997; facts at Malewa Gorge in the central Kenya Kleindienst, 2000b), but this method has Rift Valley.

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  • "HinterWars: The Aterian Invasion" 2004 - Nokia Forum Pro Award - most  successful game company in South East Asia Pacific 2003 - 1st in the world mobile phone controlled  TV game Nokia Forum Pro Award - Most Nokia Flash Hunt 2nd Prize - SingTel successful game company in SEA Award winner Multiplayer Game Contest

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  • Barham notes that these windbreaks approximately 60 limestone balls was would have served to de fl ect the prevailing recovered from a fossil spring at the site of easterly winds and to create a trap for heat El-Guettar, Tunisia, together with broken generated by the afternoon sun against the bone, fl aking waste, and a collection of cave wall. retouched tools that includes a tanged Also in the MSA levels at Mumbwa is Aterian point

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  • "It happened that I was experimenting with Aterian spear points trying to improve on their technique.

    The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

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