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Micoquien
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Key facts
- Archaeological culture.name
- Micoquien
- Archaeological culture.map
- Biface Micoquien MHNT PRE .2009.0.193.1 (3).jpg
- Archaeological culture.mapalt
- Micoquien biface
- Archaeological culture.altnames
- Micoquain
- Archaeological culture.region
- Europe
- Archaeological culture.period
- Middle Paleolithic
- Archaeological culture.dates
- c. 130,000 – c. 60,000 BCE (up to 22,000 BCE in some locations, notably in Ukraine)
- Archaeological culture.typesite
- La Micoque
- Archaeological culture.majorsites
- Balve Cave, Eem, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
- Archaeological culture.precededby
- Acheulean, Mousterian
- Archaeological culture.followedby
- Mousterian
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The Micoquien is an early Middle Paleolithic industry, that is found in the Eemian and in an early episode of the Würm glaciation (about 130,000 to 60,000 BCE). The Micoquien is distinguished technologically by the appearance of distinctly asymmetrical bifaces. Its discoverer and namer was the archeologist and art trader Otto Hauser. Hauser then sold a great number of so-called Micoque-wedges that he found in excavations in La Micoque (in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France) to museums and collectors.