Bone retouchers are present in the human toolkit throughout the Lower and Middle
Palaeolithic and appear in many contexts across Europe, sometimes in association with …

Bone retouchers are common in Middle and Upper Palaeolithic contexts. In northern Italy,
these tools are abundant in final Mousterian sites. In order to pinpoint the possible cultural …

Bone retouchers are an important behavioural marker in the definition of several Lower,
Middle and Upper Palaeolithic cultural complexes. However, their relationship with the …

The use of retouching tools made on hard animal materials has a broad chronological and
geographical distribution throughout the Palaeolithic period in Europe. The earliest …

Diversity in the used bone found in the European Middle Paleolithic is very low, but bone
retouchers are the most abundant and the most common. This paper focuses on the detailed …

Bone retouchers have a long history of research mostly addressed to their function, but
sometimes even their actual existence. After the first description by Henri Martin in 1906 …

Bone retouchers are more common during the Middle Palaeolithic (from MIS 7 to 3) and are
now considered as a part of the tool kit of Neanderthals. In Middle Pleistocene and Lower …

Since the first half of the 19th century, Belgium has provided a multitude of sites dating back
to the Palaeo lithic. These discoveries have contributed to the definition of the Palaeolithic …

In southeastern France, many Final Acheulean/Early Middle Palaeolithic and Middle
Palaeolithic assemblages have yielded bone retouchers. The oldest are dated to the Middle …

At the end of the Lower Palaeolithic and into the Middle Palaeolithic, Neanderthals inhabited
northern France, and many archaeological sites preserve accumulations of various lithic …