As a result, Azilian tools and art were cruder and less expansive than their Ice Age predecessors-or simply different.
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Archaeologists think the Azilian represents the tail end of the Magdalenian as the warming climate brought about changes in human behaviour in the area.
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The Azilian coexisted with similar early Mesolithic European cultures such as the Swiderian of North-Eastern Europe, and the Creswellian in Britain.
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Diagnostic artifacts from the culture include Azilian points ( microliths with rounded retouched backs ), crude flat bone harpoons and pebbles with abstract decoration.
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Localized cultures included the Nieman of Lithuania, the Kunda of Latvia and Estonia, the Azilian of France, and the Epi-Gravettian of Italy.
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Later the haplogroup, along with two cases of Haplogroup C, was found on human remains belonging to the culture and on individuals of the Magdalenian and Azilian cultures.
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"' Le Mas-d'Azil "'is a department in southwestern France, containing a cave that is the typesite for the prehistoric Azilian culture.
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From his excavatory findings at Mas-d'Azil in 1887, he introduced the " Azilian culture " to bridge the space between the local Paleolithic and Mesolithic phases.
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In the Mediterranean area, virtually this same material culture is often named " microlaminar microlithism " because it lacks of the bone industry typical of Franco-Cantabrian Azilian.
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These technologies first occur in Africa, associated with the Azilian cultures, before spreading to Europe through the Ibero-Maurusian culture of Northern Africa and the Kebaran culture of the Levant.
