MOUSTERIAN - EUROPE

FLINT SCRAPER

Ref #:  289

Type:  Mousterian Side Scraper

Material:  Flint

Period:  Middle Paleolithic Period  80,000 - 40,000 years ago

Provenance:  Rock Shelter - Le Moustier (TYPE SITE), France

Measurements:  6.3 cm x 4.2 cm

Comments:  Excavated from Mousterian type site of Le Moustier in 1908 by famous paleontologist Otto Hauser.  Signed and dated by him on inner face.