Talk:Levallois technique

Levallois technique being developed by "humans"

In the wiki article it says: "The Levallois technique is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of flint knapping developed by humans during the Palaeolithic period." I don't care for the use of the word human. To most readers that would imply modern Homo Sapiens, which arose in the last 150 000 years, while the Levallois technique was developed 200 000 to 300 000 years ago. Thoughts? --GreenRiot 07:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

There is a typo in the last paragraph - "though" for "thought".

Really this article is terrible! written plainly by someone with little knowledge - i shall correct it when i have more time - it needs completely re-writting! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.17.57.46 (talk) 10:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

ref

Lycett, ʺIs the Soanian a Middle Paleolithic industry? A Morphometric Assessmentʺ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.16.183.158 (talk) 21:05, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

• 220-123ka in

Middle Stone Age sites. The Kapedo Beds (1°04ʹN, 36°05ʹE)(Smith et al. 1995, Journal of the Geological Society 152:297‐310) suggest an age range of ~220,000‐123,000 years ago for the deposition of the Kapedo Beds. We recovered archaeological traces from five localities in the Kapedo Beds. Excavations at two of them produced in situ lithic assemblages interstratified with tephra. The artifacts from these localities show use of Levallois, discoidal, and other methods of flake production, include a bifacially flaked pick, Tryon et al., ʺThe Archaeological Potential of the Northern Kenyan Rift Valley: New Middle Stone Age Sites from the Kapedo Bedsʺ 76.16.183.158 (talk) Wilkins, ʺEarlier and Middle Stone Age Prepared Core Reduction Strategies at Kudu Koppie, Northern South Africaʺ ... prepared cores and endproducts of Kudu Koppie suggests that both the Sangoan and MSA toolmakers employed the Levallois Volumetric Concept, but often exploited a noduleʹs natural convexities and form76.16.183.158 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC).

Independent development?

[1] "“Our findings challenge the theory held by many archaeologists that Levallois technology was invented in Africa and spread to Eurasia as the human population expanded. Due to our ability to accurately date the site in Armenia, we now have the first clear evidence that this significant development in human innovation occurred independently within different populations.” Dougweller (talk) 13:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Location section

This section has an odd way of organizing the locations: Africa, Asia, and Southern Caucasus. There are many ways of organizing the world into regions, starting the the continents taught to schoolchildren. On the other hand, which continents you learned depends on where you went to school. In Latin America they count North America and South America as one continent. In the adult world, there are many ways of dividing up the world, such as geopolitical regions (e.g. North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean region). In archaeology, the introduction of the Levallois technique marks the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic in Eurasia, the beginning of the Middle Stone Age in Africa. I'm wondering if maybe we could go with that, especially as I was hoping to add something about France, Spain, and Italy. Zyxwv99 (talk) 20:06, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Agreed with Zyxwv99 on inconsistency of locations. Some are cities, some are countries. There is no logical order at least not one that is clearly discernible at this point. One suggestion would be to start by placing the earliest dated site of each region at the top, e.g. East Africa/Kenya 400Ka, Attirampakam 385Ka, South Caucasus 325 Ka, etc.

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