Quina Mousterian lithic assemblages are usually found in caves. Very few Quina assemblages have been found outside cave and
rock shelters. However, an important lithic assemblage, which was characterised by the presence of Quina tools and Levallois core reduction has recently been excavated at the Middle Palaeolithic valley settlements at the so-called "WFL site",
Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, in
Belgium. The researchers who uncovered those assemblages prefer to call them "Levallois core reduction with Quina tools." Quina Mousterian lithic assemblages in
Southern France mostly date to the Early
Weichselian period (70,000-60,000 BP), while Quina Mousterian lithic assemblages in Belgium mostly date to the first half of the Middle Weichselian (60,000-45,000 BP). A typical Quina Mousterian lithic assemblage is found in
Axlor site, in the
Basque Country (Spain), dated at the end of OIS3 (44,000 BP). A complete Quina technological system has been reported from Longtan, Southwest China, dating to 60,000-50,000 BP. ==References==