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Title: | Reply to : ‘No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave’ |
Authors: | Blinkhorn, James Zanolli, Clément Compton, Tim Groucutt, Huw S. Scerri, Eleanor M. L. Crete, Lucile Stringer, Chris Petraglia, Michael D. Blockley, Simon |
Keywords: | Fossil hominids Human remains (Archaeology) -- Palestine Cave dwellers -- Palestine -- History Nubia -- Antiquities Palestine -- Antiquities Dwellings, Prehistoric -- Middle East |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Citation: | Blinkhorn, J., Zanolli,C., Compton, T., Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Crete, L., Stringer, C., Petraglia, M.D., Blockley, S. (2022). Reply to: ‘No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave’. Scientific Reports 12, 1208. |
Abstract: | An exclusive connection between Homo sapiens and Nubian Levallois technology has been posited, but remains to be demonstrated1 . Our re-evaluation of the fossil and lithic material from Shukbah Cave confounds such assumptions due to the identification of a Neanderthal molar tooth alongside Nubian Levallois cores and points at the site2 . Hallinan and colleagues3 question this fnding, instead supporting the use of Nubian Levallois technology as a fossile directeur to track expansions of Homo sapiens. We tackle these critiques, highlighting the problematic foundations in the assertion that Nubian Levallois technology is a unique, discrete entity, resulting in its misuse to support simplistic culture-historical narratives. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/96298 |
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