Levallois technique

Tools made using the Levallois technique have been found dating from this era.

The method used to get the blades and flakes is called the Levallois technique.

The Levallois technique for knapping flint developed during this time.

Many had been produced using the Levallois technique.

Many are made with the Levallois technique.

They also display a lack of recognizable typology although Levallois technique was occasionally observed to have been used.

Small flint tools made of thin flakes predominate these levels, many produced using the Levallois technique.

It was thirdly characterized by a lack of known typology, with only occasional use of Levallois technique.

There were also found stones shaped by the Levallois technique, characteristic of the Middle Paleolithic.

The tools of this culture are characterized by a lack of bifaces and use of Levallois technique is absent.

The centripetal recurrent Levallois technique also includes pseudo-Levallois points and sometimes side-struck pieces as well.

An archaeological site of a stone age settlement of the Mousterian culture, with finds showing signs of the Levallois technique.

Mode 3 technology emerged towards the end of Acheulean dominance and involved the Levallois technique, most famously exploited by the Mousterian industry.

Handaxes, racloirs and points constitute the industry; sometimes a Levallois technique or another prepared-core technique was employed in making the flint flakes.

Evolving from the Acheulean, it adopted the Levallois technique to produce smaller and sharper knife-like tools as well as scrapers.

The stone tool assemblage, of flint and chert, is dominated by side scrapers and Mousterian points, with no evidence of the Levallois technique.

The lower strata of this bistratified settlement located at the present-day Zaisan Memorial revealed tools and materials fashioned according to the Levallois technique.

Many Mousterian finds in the Middle Paleolithic have been knapped using a Levallois technique, suggesting that Neanderthals evolved from Homo erectus (but, perhaps, Homo heidelbergensis (see below)).

After 350,000 BP (Before Present) the more refined so-called Levallois technique was developed, a series of consecutive strikes, by which scrapers, slicers ("racloirs"), needles, and flattened needles were made.

This allowed Fleisch to divide the tools into four groups, Early Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Middle/Late Paleolithic, and Upper Paleolithic with Levallois technique being used on cores in later periods.

The unipolar, bipolar or centripetal recurrent Levallois technique is marked by the detachment of a series of large Levallois flakes, such that the preceding removals ready the surface for the subsequent ones, thus eliminating the need for extensive repreparation.