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Flake production at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Holon (Israel): implications for the origin of the Levallois method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Chazan
Michael Chazan*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, 100 St George Street, Toronto ONT, Canada M5S 1A1. mchazan@chass.utoronto.ca
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Extract

The analysis of flake production at the late Lower Palaeolithic site of Holon (Israel) suggests that the introduction of the Levallois method was an abrupt event related to a shift in the design of tools.

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LevalloistoolknappingIsrael
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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 285 , September 2000 , pp. 495 - 499
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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