Paleolithic cultures of Europe

thumb|upright=1.2|A cordiform biface as commonly found in the Acheulean (replica) thumb|upright=1.2|Acheulean hand-axes from Kent. The types shown are (clockwise from top) cordate, ficron, and ovate. thumb|upright=1.2|Depiction of a Terra Amata (archaeological site)|Terra Amata hut in [[Nice, France dated to 400 thousand years ago, as postulated by Henry de Lumley.]] Acheulean (; also Acheulian and Mode II), from the French after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand axes" associat

The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and with the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the latter part of the Middle Paleolithic, the middle of the West Eurasian Old Stone Age. It lasted roughly from 160,000 to 40,000 BP. If its predecessor, known as Levallois or Levallois–Mousterian, is included, the range is extended to include as early as  300,000–200,000 BP. The main following period is the Aurignacian (c. 43,000–28,000 BP)

Upper Paleolithic nomadic hunter culture

archaeological culture

archaeological culture

The Tayacian is a Palaeolithic stone tool industry that is a variant of the Mousterian. It was first identified as distinct by Abbé Breuil from the site of La Micoque in Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac although since then the cave at Fontéchevade has become the "reference site for this industry".

archaeological culture