Mousterian

The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and with the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the latter part of the Middle Paleolithic, the middle of the West Eurasian Old Stone Age. It lasted roughly from 160,000 to 40,000 BP. If its predecessor, known as Levallois or Levallois–Mousterian, is included, the range is extended to include as early as  300,000–200,000 BP. The main following period is the Aurignacian (c. 43,000–28,000 BP)

Zafarraya is a municipality in the province of Granada, Spain, with a population of 2,200 (2003).

archaeological site

natural sea cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; one of the last known habitations of the Neanderthals in Europe

distinctive type of stone knapping technique used by ancient humans

archaeological site in Morocco

cave

archaeological and paleontological site in Spain

cave in Israel

UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric decorated caves in the Vézère Valley, France

archaeological site in Uzbekistan

cave; part of Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara archaeological site in the Carmel mountain range in northern Israel

cave and archaeological site in Azerbaijan

cave

geographical object

cave in Israel

prehistoric cave site

prehistoric site in Kristinestad, Finland

cave in Belgium

limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England

cave in Soloneshensky District, Altai Krai, Russia

archaeological site

cave in Poland

Santimamiñe cave, Kortezubi, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain, is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Basque Country, including a nearly complete sequence from the Middle Paleolithic to the Iron Age.

cave in France

cave in Azerbaijan

cave in Niederstotzingen, Germany

cave in Israel

thumb|Type of Mousterian Racloir thumb|Racloir from Galería (TG11) of Archaeological Site of Atapuerca|Atapuerca

archaeological site in Croatia

cave in France

The Tayacian is a Palaeolithic stone tool industry that is a variant of the Mousterian. It was first identified as distinct by Abbé Breuil from the site of La Micoque in Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac although since then the cave at Fontéchevade has become the "reference site for this industry".

cave in Russia

late Natufian archaeological site in Israel

Wildkirchli () are three interlinked caves situated in the Alpstein massif in the Appenzell Innerrhoden canton of Switzerland, north-east of Mount Säntis Switzerland. The caves are located at a height of . They are notable for the traces of Paleolithic Neanderthal habitation, dating to c. 40,000 BP, and cave bear bones dating to 90,000–40,000 BP. A museum at the site houses a full bear skeleton that was found in one of the caves.

cave and archaeological site in Italy

cave in Austria

thumb|right|200px|Interior of the cave Šipka is a cave located near Štramberk, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, 440 m above sea level. In 1880, a mandible of a Neanderthal child was found there. The age of the child has been estimated to be between 9 and 10 years.

archaeological site

archaeological site in Kangarli District, Azerbaijan

hominin fossil

cave in Bisotun, Iranian national heritage site

Naulette, is a large cave located in Wallonia on the left bank of the Lesse, a tributary of the Meuse in the hills above Dinant, Belgium.

mountain in Israel

cave in Germany

cave and archaeological site in Slovakia

cave and archaeological site in Uzbekistan

cave and archaeological site in Afghanistan

Axlor is a prehistoric archeological site in the village of Dima in Biscay in the Autonomous Basque Community of Spain, dating from the Middle Paleolithic or Mousterian period.

cave and archaeological site in Spain

historic site in Shida Kartli, Georgia

archaeological site in Italy

cave in Iran

Scladina, or Sclayn Cave, is an archaeological site located in Wallonia in the town of Sclayn, in the Andenne hills in Belgium, where excavations since 1978 have provided the material for an exhaustive collection of over thirteen thousand Mousterian stone artifacts and the fossilized remains of an especially ancient Neanderthal, called the Scladina child were discovered in 1993.

cave in Gibraltar

archaeological site

caves with parietal art in Arcy-sur-Cure

cultural property in Xàtiva, Spain

thumb|Jabroudian culture was named after Yabroud, where Iskafta cave was found in Syria The Jabroudian culture is a cultural phase of the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant. It broadly belongs to the Mousterian archaeological culture, and shows connections with the European facies La Quina.

cave in France