Artefacts dated to the Middle Palaeolithic (approx. 100,000 to 40,000 BP), and associated with Neanderthals (after Le Moustier rock shelter, France).
A middle Palaeolithic culture of Europe and the Mediterranean area that is dated from before 70,000 BC to 32,000 BC and is characterised by well-made flint tools, considered to be the work of Neanderthal stone tool culture dating from about 90,000 to about 40,000 years ago.
Named after type site of Le Moustier in France and refers to a distinct flint industry comprising of handaxes, scrapers and points. Sometimes the Levallois technique was used to make flint flakes. The Mousterian Industry is associated with the Middle Palaeolithic and used by Neanderthals and dates to between 70 000 BP and 32 000 BP
Old World archeologic culture attributed to Neanderthal Man, 50,000 to 100,000 years BP.
Mousterian is a name given by archaeologists to a style of predominantly flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with Homo neanderthalensis and dating to the Middle Paleolithic, the middle part of the Old Stone Age. It was named after the type site of Le Moustier, a rock shelter in the Dordogne region of France. Similar flintwork has been found all over unglaciated Europe and also the Near East and North Africa.