Mousterian

This age of tools is a techno-complex archaeological industry of stone tools from the stone age. They are associated primarily with the neanderthals in Europe and the earliest modern humans in North Africa and West Asia.

Item:
M269 Neanderthal Hand Axe from France

Age:
Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 80,000-40,000 Years Ago

Found
Location: Rock Shelter - Dordogne, France

4" Long Exceptional Specimen as found, with no repair or restoration. Cave sediment and mineral encrustations are still on the surface. perfect and complete as originally made. Larger than typical.

Price: $1,900

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Item:
M261 Mousterian Naturally Backed Knife

Age:
Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 80,000 - 40,000 Years Ago

Found Location:
Rock Shelter (Village of Plazac) - Dordogne, France

Choice example with broad natural back for finger pressure. Exceptional specimen as found, with no repair or restoration. Cave sediment and mineral encrustations still on surface.

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Item:
M268 Mousterian-in-the-Acheulian Tradition Handaxe

Age:
Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 300,000 - 200,000 Years Ago

Found Location:
Le Grand-Pressigny, France

4" Long. Choice example of this (mat) technology. Prominent hand grip. Made of golden LGP flint typical for the region. As found with no repair or restoration.

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Item: M279 Mousterian Hafted Flake Tool

Age: Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 80,000-40,000 Years ago

Found Location: Rock Shelter (Village of Plazac) - Dordogne, France

Reduced proximal end to haft onto a bone, Ivory or horn handle. Exceptional s

Item:
M279 Mousterian Hafted Flake Tool

Age:
Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 80,000-40,000 Years Ago

Found Location:
Rock Shelter (Village of Plazac) - Dordogne, France

Reduced proximal end, nomrally attached to an ivory or horn handle. Exceptional specimen as found with no repair or restoration. Cave sediment and mineral encrustations still on surface.

Price: $300

Item: M268 Mat Neanderthal Hand Axe From France

Age: Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 300,000-200,000 Years Ago

Found Location: Le Grand Pressigny, France

3" Long. Choice Example of this (Mat) Technology. Prominent hand grip. Made of golden LGP fl

Item:
M290 French Mousterian Hand Axe

Age:
Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 80,000-40,000 Years Ago

Found Location:
Rock Shelter - Dordogne - France

3.75" in length. Exceptionally rare workmanship and larger than the typical Mousterian Hand Axe. Perfect, very thin, cutting edge remaining in good condition. Intact with no repair or restoration.

Price: $2,000

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Item:
M292 Mousterian Denticulate Saw

Age:
Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 80,000 - 40,000 Years Ago

Found Location:
Open Air Site - Plateau De Foncroze, France

Well made and obvious knapped teeth on cutting edge of a thick flake. Robust design needed to apply heavy pressure in sawing and avoid breakage of flake tool. A superb example and as found, with no repair or restoration.

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Item: M294 French Mousterian Neanderthal Hand Axe (Unofficial Chert Mousterian Hand Axe)

Age: Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 80,000-30,000 Years ago

Found Location: Brittany -Western France

4.5" long. Exceptional specimen as found with no repair

Item:
M294 French Mousterian Neanderthal Hand Axe (Unifacial Chert Mousterian Handaxe)

Age:
Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic): 80,000-30,000 Years Ago

Found Location:
Brittany - Western France

4.5" long. Exceptional specimen as found with no repair or restoration. Unusually fine workmanship and is larger than the typical Neanderthal Hand Axe.

Price: $4,000