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The Mousterian stone tool industry is associated with which of the following hominins?
A-Homo sapiens
B-Homo habilis
C-Homo neanderthalensis
D-Homo erectus
Stoon tool is a weapon made by eariler people to chop food, trees,. It is also used to plough the field and for hunting of animals.
A. Homo sapiens: They are the modern humans . They evolved in earth at 200000 to 400000 years ago. So with according to this time line they must be used The aurignecian, mesolothic and neolithic stone tools. Hence it is wrong.
B Homo habilis: the time corresponding to Homo habilis refered that they must use the oldowan stone tool . Hence it is also wrong.
C. Homo neanderthalensis: these species came just before the modern homo sapeins. The stoone tool tradition before the aurignecian was the mousterian stoone tool. So consequently they used the mousterian stone tool tradition. Hence it is correct.
D. Homo erectus: the stone tool used by Homo erectus were called Acheulean stone tool tradition. Hence it is wrong.
So the right answer is C. Homo neanderthalensis .