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The Aterian industry
Archaeological industry

An archaeological industry is the name given to a consistent range of Assemblage s connected with a single product , such as the Langdale axe industry....
 is a name given by archaeologists to a type of stone tool manufacturing dating to the Middle Stone Age (or Middle Palaeolithic) in the region around the Atlas Mountains
Atlas Mountains

The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2,400 km through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Jbel Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco....
 and the northern Sahara
Sahara

The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers , it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe....
.

The industry was probably created by modern humans (Homo sapiens), albeit of an early type
Archaic Homo sapiens

The term Archaic Homo sapiens refers generally to the earliest members of the species Homo sapiens. Fossils categorized as archaic Homo sapiens have many of the same features as modern humans with general tendencies toward features of earlier Hominina species....
, as shown by the few skeletal remains known so far from sites on the Moroccan Atlantic coast.

Bifacially-worked leaf shaped and tanged projectile points are a common artefact
Artifact (archaeology)

In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human archaeological culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor....
 type and so are racloir
Racloir

A racloir is a name given by archaeologists to a certain type of flint tool made by prehistoric peoples.It is created from a flint lithic flake and looks like a large scraper....
s and Levallois
Levallois technique

The Levallois technique is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of lithic reduction developed by humans during the Palaeolithic period....
 flakes.






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The Aterian industry
Archaeological industry

An archaeological industry is the name given to a consistent range of Assemblage s connected with a single product , such as the Langdale axe industry....
 is a name given by archaeologists to a type of stone tool manufacturing dating to the Middle Stone Age (or Middle Palaeolithic) in the region around the Atlas Mountains
Atlas Mountains

The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2,400 km through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Jbel Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco....
 and the northern Sahara
Sahara

The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers , it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe....
.

The industry was probably created by modern humans (Homo sapiens), albeit of an early type
Archaic Homo sapiens

The term Archaic Homo sapiens refers generally to the earliest members of the species Homo sapiens. Fossils categorized as archaic Homo sapiens have many of the same features as modern humans with general tendencies toward features of earlier Hominina species....
, as shown by the few skeletal remains known so far from sites on the Moroccan Atlantic coast.

Bifacially-worked leaf shaped and tanged projectile points are a common artefact
Artifact (archaeology)

In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human archaeological culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor....
 type and so are racloir
Racloir

A racloir is a name given by archaeologists to a certain type of flint tool made by prehistoric peoples.It is created from a flint lithic flake and looks like a large scraper....
s and Levallois
Levallois technique

The Levallois technique is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of lithic reduction developed by humans during the Palaeolithic period....
 flakes. Items of personal adornment (pierced and ochred Nassarius
Nassarius

Nassarius, common names "nassa mud snails" or "dog whelks" , is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or dog whelks....
 shell beads) are known from at least one Aterian site, with an age of 82,000 years.

See also

  • Synoptic table of the principal old world prehistoric cultures
    Synoptic table of the principal old world prehistoric cultures

    The synoptic table of the principal old world prehistoric cultures gives a rough picture of the relationships between the various principal Archaeological culture of Prehistory outside the Americas, Antarctica, Australia and Oceania....