mousterian

The RTÉ article also describes the differences between Mousterian (Neanderthal) and Neronian (modern humans) technology which is relevant to the alternating occupation hypothesis.

These were all found in the same location, on a ledge behind a hearth in a Mousterian occupation level.

The Stone Age cultures, especially the Mousterian and Aterian have grown significantly in Africa during the Abbassia Pluvial period.

Curiously, the same influences that created the Mousterian Pluvial also seem to have made it disappear.

The Mousterian Pluvial was caused by large-scale climatic changes during the last glacial period.

The Mousterian (Neanderthal industry) is even more extreme example.

I find the Mousterian [1] culture / tools quite interesting, because it appears to be part of the history of hominid technological progress, the stepping stone to Châtelperronian tools, and yet also seems almost wholly attributed to Neanderthals.

The jet stream splits into two entities, creating a new climate over the northern hemisphere, which sets harsher conditions in several regions of Central Asia and the Middle East, the end of the Mousterian Pluvial and a Return to a more arid climate in North Africa.

During the Pluvial Mousterian, the dried-up regions of North Africa became again very humid, as during the rainy Abbassia period 50,000 years earlier.

We cannot be certain, but we know that their stone tools (Mousterian) are very, very conservative.