Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus

Adler, D.; Wilkinson, Keith; Blockley, Simon; F. Mark, Darren; Pinhasi, R.; A. Schmidt-Magee, Beverly; Nahapetyan, Samvel; Mallol, Carolina; Berna, Francesco; Glauberman, Phil; Raczynski-Henk, Yannick; Wales, Nathan; Frahm, Ellery; Jöris, Olaf; MacLeod, Alison; Smith, Vicki; L. Cullen, Victoria; Gasparian, Boris

doi:10.1126/science.1256484

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Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus

Published in Science • Sep 25, 2014

Authors:

D. Adler

Keith Wilkinson

Simon Blockley

Abstract

The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition (~400,000 to 200,000 years ago) is marked by technical, behavioral, and anatomical changes among hominin populations throughout Africa and Eurasia. The replacement of bifacial stone tools, such as handaxes, by tools made on flakes detached from Levallois co...

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Middle Paleolithic

Homo sapiens

Lithic technology

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