Definitions for Mousterian

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Mousterian Mous·te·ri·an

Spelling: [moo-steer-ee-uh n]

IPA: /muˈstɪər i ən/

Mousterian is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 1585 anagrams from letters in Mousterian (aeimnorstu).

Definitions for Mousterian

adjective

1. of or relating to a Middle Paleolithic culture of Neanderthal man dating to the early upper Pleistocene Epoch (c100,000–40,000 b.c.) and consisting of five or more stone-artifact traditions in Europe whose characteristic tools are side scrapers and points.
2. pertaining to Paleolithic human relics having the workmanship, finish, and character of the flint scrapers found in the sands of Moustier, France.

Origin of Mousterian

1885-90; French moust(i)érien; see -ian

Examples for Mousterian

These are assigned to the later Acheulean and earlier Mousterian epochs.

Obermaier has given careful study to the vicissitudes of cave life in Mousterian times.

The bones of the bison and of the wild horse are both utilized in the bone anvils of the closing Mousterian culture at La Quina.

Period of the middle or 'full Mousterian' industry of the Neanderthal races.

Even before the close of early Mousterian times all this was changed.

The Mousterian industry is entirely distinct from its predecessors.

It coincides with the oncoming of the cold, either in the Mousterian or the Magdalenian.

In all Germany there are only about seven stations of unquestioned Mousterian age.

Hard by were flint implements of a well-marked Mousterian type.

This excavation entered a stratum distinguished as Mousterian.