I didn’t know about the Mousterian stone tools. I see that they were mainly in Europe - and predated Solutrean/Clovis, which is what I find significant in the current context.
“I see that they were mainly in Europe - and predated Solutrean/Clovis, which is what I find significant in the current context.”
I apprenticed under my Grandmother who was a renown Archaeologist and Anthropologist. Her colleges are all friends of mine because I was a persistent tag along. When I found one of the Mousterian tools I shared with them all and asked them where they came from. They told me the same thing you just did, and which I already knew. I asked if they were authentic for the period and they said yes. Then I told them I found them just down the road at the dry lake 30 miles away.
Since I have found two more. I found them all along the ancient shore line of Lake Manix where the early man dig is located. My finds back up Leakey’s assumptions. In fact they would be much older than the Calico finds. But what good it does, they don’t fit the narrative so even those who first authenticated them will not back them up as the real deal anymore. They know they are, they just won’t admit it.