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Hallinan E, Barzilai O, Beshkani A, Cascalheira J, Demidenko YE, Goder-Goldberger M, Hilbert YH, Hovers E, Marks AE, Nymark A, Olszewski DI, Oron M, Rose JI, Shaw M, Usik VI. The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex. Evol Anthropol 2022; 31:227-232. [PMID: 36062827 DOI: 10.1002/evan.21958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Emily Hallinan
- Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Human Evolution, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- UMR 7194 'Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme Préhistorique', Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Human Evolution, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- Ferenc Rakoczi II Tranthcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, Kiev, Ukraine.,Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel.,Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Centre for Archaeological Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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Blinkhorn J, Zanolli C, Compton T, Groucutt HS, Scerri EM, Crete L, Stringer C, Petraglia MD, Blockley S. Reply to: 'No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave'. Sci Rep 2022; 12:1208. [PMID: 35075170 PMCID: PMC8786945 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05049-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- James Blinkhorn
- Pan-African Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745, Jena, Germany.
- Department of Geography, Centre for Quaternary Research, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, UK.
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, MCC, PACEA, UMR 5199, 33600, Pessac, France
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Extreme Events Research Group, Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Ecology, The Science of Human History, and Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, 50931, Cologne, Germany
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- Pan-African Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, 50931, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Human Origins Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560, USA
- School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Department of Geography, Centre for Quaternary Research, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, UK
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Directional changes in Levallois core technologies between Eastern Africa, Arabia, and the Levant during MIS 5. Sci Rep 2021; 11:11465. [PMID: 34075081 PMCID: PMC8169925 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90744-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5, ~ 130 to 71 thousand years ago, was a key period for the geographic expansion of Homo sapiens, including engagement with new landscapes within Africa and dispersal into Asia. Occupation of the Levant by Homo sapiens in MIS 5 is well established, while recent research has documented complementary evidence in Arabia. Here, we undertake the first detailed comparison of Levallois core technology from eastern Africa, Arabia, and the Levant during MIS 5, including multiple sites associated with Homo sapiens fossils. We employ quantitative comparisons of individual artefacts that provides a detailed appraisal of Levallois reduction activity in MIS 5, thereby enabling assessment of intra- and inter-assemblage variability for the first time. Our results demonstrate a pattern of geographically structured variability embedded within a shared focus on centripetal Levallois reduction schemes and overlapping core morphologies. We reveal directional changes in core shaping and flake production from eastern Africa to Arabia and the Levant that are independent of differences in geographic or environmental parameters. These results are consistent with a common cultural inheritance between these regions, potentially stemming from a shared late Middle Pleistocene source in eastern Africa.
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