MyLibraryZotero17Kozłowski, Janusz KrzysztofLitikum – Journal of the Lithic Research RoundtableLitikum – Journal of the Lithic Research RoundtableLitikum23–324201620162064-3640https://doi.org/10.23898/litikuma0016The objective of this paper is the analysis of cultural diversification in Central Europe, in the Penultimate Glaciation (MIS 8–6) on the basis of techno-morphological criteria. Using the taxonomic analysis of culture units in the Early Phase of the Middle Palaeolithic a hypothesis has been proposed that claims a complex, polycentric origin of some of the distinguished units that employed Levallois technology and bifacial tools such as Micoquian Keilmesser and leaf-points. The phylogenetic processes registered in the Early Phases of the Middle Palaeolithic determined the cultural diversity in the Late Phase of this time interval (from the Last Interglacial – MIS 5 – to the middle of the Interpleniglacial – MIS 3).https://litikum.hu