Editing Stone tool (section)

===Mode III: The Mousterian Industry===
[[File:Nucléus Levallois La-Parrilla.png|thumb|upright=1.25|A tool made by the [[Levallois technique]]. This example is from La Parrilla (Valladolid, Spain).]]
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{{Main|Mousterian}}

Eventually, the Acheulean in Europe was replaced by a lithic technology known as the [[Mousterian Industry]], which was named after the site of [[Le Moustier]] in France, where examples were first uncovered in the 1860s. Evolving from the Acheulean, it adopted the [[Levallois technique]] to produce smaller and sharper knife-like tools as well as scrapers. Also known as the "prepared core technique", flakes are struck from worked cores and then subsequently retouched.<ref>Clarke's "flake tools from prepared cores."</ref> The Mousterian Industry was developed and used primarily by the [[Neanderthals]], a native European and Middle Eastern hominin species, but a broadly similar industry is contemporaneously widespread in Africa.<ref>{{Citation | last=Pettitt |first=Paul | year=2009 | contribution=The Rise of Modern Humans | title=The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies | edition=2nd | editor-first=Chris | editor-last=Scarre | location=London | publisher=Thames and Hudson | pages=149–151}}</ref>