The Tayacian is a

Palaeolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός '' palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...

stone tool industry that is a variant of the

Mousterian The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the l ...

. It was first identified as distinct by Abbé Breuil from the site of

La Micoque The Micoquien is an early middle paleolithic industry, that is found in the Eemian and in an early episode of the Würm glaciation (about 130,000 to 60,000 BCE). The Micoquien is distinguished technologically by the appearance of distinctly asym ...

in Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac although since then the cave at

Fontéchevade Fontéchevade is a cave in Charente, France, which contains Palaeolithic remains from 200,000 and 120,000 years ago. The fossils consist of two skull fragments. Unlike Neanderthals and ''Homo sapiens'' of the time, the frontal skull fragment lack ...

has become the "reference site for this industry".Chase, P.G., Debenath, A., Dibble, H.L. and McPherron, S.P. 2009. The Cave of Fontéchevade: Recent Excavations and their Paleoanthropological Implications. New York: Cambridge University Press. Page 17-20 Tools from this culture have been excavated in a stratigraphic column in the

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

area.{{cite book , title = An Encyclopedia of World History , editor-last = Langer , editor-first = William L. , edition = 5th , publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company , location = Boston, MA , year = 1972 , isbn = 0-395-13592-3 , pages
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Archaeological cultures of West Asia Archaeological cultures of Europe Paleolithic cultures of Asia Paleolithic cultures of Europe Archaeological cultures in France Archaeological cultures in Syria Middle Paleolithic Lithics Mousterian