Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

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

Published:2014-09-26 Issue:6204 Volume:345 Page:1609-1613
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Adler D. S.¹,Wilkinson K. N.²,Blockley S.³,Mark D. F.⁴,Pinhasi R.⁵,Schmidt-Magee B. A.¹,Nahapetyan S.⁶,Mallol C.⁷,Berna F.⁸,Glauberman P. J.¹,Raczynski-Henk Y.⁹,Wales N.¹¹⁰,Frahm E.¹¹,Jöris O.¹²,MacLeod A.³,Smith V. C.¹³,Cullen V. L.¹³,Gasparian B.¹⁴

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 354 Mansfield Road, Unit 1176, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

2. Department of Archaeology, University of Winchester, Winchester, SO22 4NR, UK.

3. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK.

4. Natural Environmental Research Council Argon Isotope Facility, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Scottish Enterprise and Technology Park, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, G75 0QF, UK.

5. School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

6. Department of Cartography and Geomorphology, Yerevan State University, Alek Manukyan 1, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia.

7. Departamento de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

8. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada.

9. Ex-Situ Silex, Leiden, Netherlands.

10. Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.

11. Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 4ET, UK.

12. MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Schloss Monrepos, D-56567 Neuwied, Germany.

13. Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK.

14. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Charents 15, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia.

Abstract

An early assemblage of obsidian artifacts Levallois technology is the name for the stone knapping technique used to create tools thousands of years ago. The technique appeared in the archeological record across Eurasia 200 to 300 thousand years ago (ka) and appeared earlier in Africa. Adler et al. challenge the hypothesis that the technique's appearance in Eurasia was the result of the expansion of hominins from Africa. Levallois obsidian artifacts in the southern Caucasus, dated at 335 to 325 ka, are the oldest in Eurasia. This suggests that Levallois technology may have evolved independently in different hominin populations. Stone technology cannot thus be used as a reliable indicator of Paleolithic human population change and expansion. Science , this issue p. 1609

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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