Prepared-core technique: Difference between revisions

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Prepared core preparation techniques are grouped under the label [[Stone tool#Mode III: The Mousterian Industry|Mode 3]] technology.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mode 3 Technologies and the Evolution of Modern Humans|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/mode-3-technologies-and-the-evolution-of-modern-humans/EE5A558A051F3C0F60A43B0955A3464E|publisher=Cambridge Archaeological Journal|access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref> The best-known prepared core reduction method is the [[Levallois technique|Levallois]] technique<ref>{{cite web|title=Levallois technique|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100102137|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref>

Prepared core technology was likely invented independently multiple times at different locations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus|url=https://www.science.sciencemag.org/contentdoi/345abs/620410.1126/1609science.abstract1256484|publisher=Science Magazine|access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref> The regular use of Prepared core technology is associated with large-brained hominins such as ''[[Homo heidelbergensis]]'', [[Neanderthals]] and [[modern humans]]. Its widespread use is the defining characteristic of the [[Middle Stone Age]] period in [[Africa]] and the [[Middle Palaeolithic]] (~300.000 - 40.000 years ago) in [[Europe]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mode 3 Technologies and the Evolution of Modern Humans|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/mode-3-technologies-and-the-evolution-of-modern-humans/EE5A558A051F3C0F60A43B0955A3464E|publisher=Cambridge Archaeological Journal|access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref>

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