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LEVALLOIS FLAKE (80000 BP) ventral surface: Levallois flakes as tools have a broad range of potential preparations and usages. Levallois technology begins with preparing a core that, when struck, gives the user a flake in a desired shape. Rather than the reduced core itself becoming the tool, that flake is the end goal of the process. The Levallois technique is associated with Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalis, and Homo sapiens. What is important about this shift in technology is that it is indicative to a cognitive shift in how stone tools were made. Levallois technology requires planning in each strike to achieve the desired end result.
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