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The Definition and Interpretation of Levallois Technology

Harold L. Dibble and Ofer Bar-Yosef, editors

Table of Contents

Part 1. Approaches to the Study of Levallois

Current Issues in the Levallois Problem. Philip Van Peer

Principals and Properties of Lithic Core Reduction: Implications for Levallois Technology. Mark F. Baumler

Levallois or Not Levallois: Does it Really Matter? Learning from an African Case. Fédéric Sellet

Levallois: A Volumetric Construction, Methods, a Technique. Eric Boëda

The Levallois Paradox. Vadim A. Ranov

Problems and Prospects in the Study of Levallois Technology in the Levant. The Case of Fara II, Israel. Issac Gilead

Biache-Saint-Vaast, Level IIa: A Comparison of Approaches. Harold L. Dibble

The Nature of Levallois. Marcel Otte

Part 2. Interpreting Technological Variability

Levallois Debitage in Central Italy: Technical Achievements and Raw Material Procurement. Amilcare Bietti and Stephano Grimaldi

Technology and Microwear: Predetermined Flakes from the Mousterian Site of Grotta Brueil (Monte Circeo, Italy). Stephano Grimaldi and Christina Lemorini

A Perspective on Levallois from a "Non-Levallois" Assemblage: The Mousterian of Grotta di Sant'Agostino (Gaeta, Italy). Steven L. Kuhn

Are Levallois flakes in the Acheulean the results of Biface Preparation? Lorraine Copland

The Influence of Mobility Levels on Levallois Point Production, Late Levantine Mousterian, Southern Jordan. Donald O. Henry

Variability Within Uniformity: Three Levels of Variability within the Levallois System. Anne Delagnes

Main Technological and Typological Characteristics of the Lithic Assemblages from Level 1 at Bérigoule (Murs-Vaucluse). Pierre-Jean Texier and Isabel Francisco-Ortega

Levallois Debitage: Exclusivity, Absence, or Coexistence With Other Operative Schemes (Garonne Basin, SW France). Jacques Jaubert and Catherine Farizy

Recurrent, Centripetal Debitage or discoid versus Levallois, in the northeast of the Aquitaine Basin: Continuity or Discontinuity? Michel Lenoir and Alain Turq

Analysis of Debitage Pieces From Experimentally Reduced "Classical Levallois" and "Discoidal" Cores. Katsuhiko Ohnuma

Modeling the Production of Elongated Blanks from the Early Levantine Mousterian at Rosh Ein Mor. Anthony E. Marks and Katherine Monigal

Behavioral Factors Affecting the Production of Levallois Points in the Levantine Mousterian. John J. Shea

The Levallois Method as Cultural Constraint. Avraham Ronen

Part 3. Regional Perspectives

Levallois Technology in Northern Africa: Geography and Chronology. Pierre M. Vermeersch

Levallois Technology in the Middle Paleolithic of Eastern Morocco. Luc Wengler

Levallois Technique Emergence: Single or Multiple? A Review of the Euro-African Record. Nicolas Rolland

Levallois Lithic Production Systems in the Middle Paleolithic of the Near East: The Case of the Unidirectional Method. Lilliane Meignen

The Mousterian Industries of Yabrud Shelter I: A Reconsideration. Rose L. Solecki Ralph S. Solecki

Thoughts on the Levallois Technique in Anatolia. Isin Yalçinkaya

Variability of Levallois Technology in Northern France and Neighboring Areas. Alain Tuffreau

Bohunician Technology. Jirí Svoboda and Petr Skrdla

On the Problem of Establishing the Potential Evolutionary Technological Possibilities of the "Point" Levallois-Mousterian: An Examination of the Materials of Korolevo I Site-Complex, 2B, in the Ukranian Transcarpathians. Yuri E. Demidenko and Vitalli I. Usik

Levallois of Mongolia. Anatoliy P. Derevianko and Valeriy T. Petrin

The Mousterian of the Altai in the Context of the Middle Paleolithic Culture of Eurasia Anatoly P. Derevianko and Sergei V. Markin

Lithic Technology of the Japanese Middle Paleolithic: Levallois in Japan? Hiroyuki Sato, Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Miho Suzuki