Micoquian industry

The Micoquian industry refers to a late Acheulean culture found in England and southern France. This prehistoric technology is characterized by biface hand axes that have narrow points and thin cross-sections. It also features a developed flake industry, meaning tools were made from flakes struck from a core stone. The Acheulean industry itself was a development from earlier stone tool technologies, refining the technique of striking one stone against another to create sharper edges. The Micoquian culture dates to a period within the Pleistocene Epoch, a time when early humans were developing increasingly sophisticated stone tools to adapt to their environments.123