History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET December 2013 History
Flake tools of the Levallois technique are the characteristic feature of which of the following geological ages?
ALower Pleistocene
BHolocene
CUpper Pleistocene
DMiddle Pleistocene ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Middle Pleistocene — The Levallois technique belongs to the Middle Pleistocene, so the answer is Middle Pleistocene.
Explanation
★The Levallois technique belongs to the Middle Pleistocene, so the answer is Middle Pleistocene.
★It is a distinctive method of striking flakes from a prepared stone core.
★Archaeologists gave it this name after a site near Paris.
★It developed in the Middle Pleistocene period of the Stone Age.
★It is part of the Mousterian stone tool industry.
★In Europe it was used mainly by the Neanderthals.
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