The manufacture of lithic tools required appropriate raw materials such
as flint and quartz originating mainly from the zone of activity of the
Palaeolithic hunter. Typical tools of the Lower
Palaeolithic (400/350,000-100,000 BP) are the chopping
tools
and the handaxes,
which conform to the production methods of the Acheulean
cultural tradition.
During the Middle Palaeolithic
(100,000-35,000 BP), the technique Levallois
and the Mousterien
technique, typical for this period, was applied. The stone industry
of this period included handaxes and centripetal flakes,
characteristic mousterien points, single or double scrapers, notches,
denticulates and natural backed blades.
The stone industries of the Upper
Palaeolithic (from 35,000 to 11,000 BP) include arrowheads,
spearheards, flakes, endscrapers, drills, blades and bladelets.
During this period tools of bone and deer antler in the form of arrowheads,
needles, drills and spatulas were also manufactured.
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