For the Levallois technique, the toolmaker takes an oblong, relatively flat flint nodule and strikes flakes off the thinner sides of the core all the way around its circumference. She then flips the ...

More information: Sam C. Lin et al, Controlling Levallois: the effect of hammer angle of blow on Levallois flake morphology and fracture trajectory, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025).

The 385,000-year-old stone tools from the Attirampakkam archaeological site in India were made with a sophisticated Levallois technique that experts thought had arrived much later in India.

These Levallois flakes, named after the place in France where they were first found, ... So they invented a cleanup technique using enzymes that target and eliminate bacterial DNA from the sample.

Somewhere around 300,000 years ago, our human ancestors in parts of Africa began to make small, sharp tools, using stone flakes that they created using a technique called Levallois.. The ...

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON—According to a New Scientist report, new dates have been obtained for stone tools made with Levallois techniques that were discovered in a cave in south China some 40 years ago.

Nubian Levallois flints thought to date from 100,000 years ago have ... so that it fractures in specific ways — while the flake forming the point was ... In the Nubian Levallois technique, ...

Made by chipping flakes off a stone so that the flakes themselves become the tools, Levallois tools are considered to be a “middle stage” in the development of stone tool technology ...

The Neanderthal "caveman" lived in Western Europe on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and in southwestern and central Asia from about 400,000 to 40,000 years ago.