Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each trait: Lower Paleolithic (Acheulean world) or Middle Paleolithic (Neanderthal world)?
Groups: Lower Paleolithic · Middle Paleolithic
- Deliberate burial of some of the dead
- A near-static toolkit for a million years
- The symmetrical bifacial handaxe
- Birch-tar hafted composite tools
- Levallois prepared-core technique
Hints
- One period shows a static form, the other planned core preparation.
- Preparing a core to yield a predetermined flake implies forward planning.
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Lower Paleolithic: The symmetrical bifacial handaxe, A near-static toolkit for a million years
Middle Paleolithic: Levallois prepared-core technique, Birch-tar hafted composite tools, Deliberate burial of some of the dead
Why
The Levallois technique is the tell: shaping a core so the flake comes off pre-designed means planning several steps ahead. The static million years ends here.
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