Micoquien
Micoquiense
- Date
- c. 1910 · confidence low
- Place
- Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France
- Credited to
- Otto Hauser
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A Middle Paleolithic lithic industry characterized by markedly asymmetrical bifaces, defined by archaeologist Otto Hauser from his excavations at the La Micoque site in Dordogne.
What it led to
- helped structure the technological sequence of the European Middle Paleolithic
- was later associated with late Neanderthal populations
- served as a reference for classifying asymmetrical bifaces at other European sites