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Mousterian tools had unique characteristics that give us an insight into the Middle Paleolithic, where the stones can be described in many shapes.

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The most likely of those would be small hand axes and flake tools which were triangular, and most likely used as knives. Round limestone balls were also believed to be used to capture prey by tangling their legs from a tool that used small balls and rope of some sort to bring the animal's legs together and get caught. Spears were also used to hunt larger prey such as Mammoths and Woolly Rhinoceros. With this varying amount of tools they had, their ‘kits’ can be seen to either have been spread throughout the regions where many different groups of individuals used to make different tools or the same individual could make many tools to aid in various acts they had to perform.

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The tools focused on the production of flake on stone tools used to gather many items that helped the species advance and overcome survival challenges. Using the core reduction technique the flakes were made to fit the needs of the person and they could be catered to that specific task. The relationship between the toolmaker and receiver was important. Tools were created to fill the needs of the tools that were thought to be needed for immediate needs. While the genus Homo, could have evolved different techniques for tool making given certain pressures, they rely heavily on previously received information for their benefit, which is why the tool-making technique was around for a long. The use of the same tool, just with frequent sharpening meant that the material could be saved and the tool could still be effective.[3] The use of these tools shaped the technology of the upper paleolithic time.

The History of Mousterian tools and their direct effect on how well a population could access food made the modern man better adapted to face challenges. The overcoming of growing progression in life forms meant that the ability to use tools to an advantage had to come along for the homo genus to keep surviving. The Mousterian is defined when the appearance of stone reduction to make tools came about with a technique called the Levallois technique. Each tool had its shape predetermined by each strike of the stone, it was seen to incorporate many new methods to reach the same goal, just with more efficiency. Modern Humans needed a strategy to keep up with surviving costs of tool production. The shift of focusing on acquiring meat for food and other animals to hunt like aquatic animals, and flying animals meant that the technology had to be improving for use of the species to successfully grow. Tool production requires raw material and time, both of which early species in the genus Homo did not have much of, thus the need to have strategies was vital to this period and its development.