Oldowan or Pebble-Flake Industry? Levantine Mousterian or Levantine Middle Paleolithic?
Journal: Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
Year: 2016

The emergence of Levallois technique and the origin of the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, addressed in my previous publication, are revisited. In the fi nal Acheulean of the Levant, the Acheulo-Yabrudian industry emerged and the blade technology was invented. On that base, the Levantine Middle Paleolithic originated. The terms “Oldowan industry” and “Levantine Mousterian” should be abandoned. The Oldowan industry was associated with Homo habilis, who had never migrated outside Africa. Because ear