Editing Levallois technique (section)

==Origins==
The technique is first found in the [[Lower Palaeolithic]] but is most commonly associated with the [[Neanderthal]] [[Mousterian]] industries of the [[Middle Palaeolithic]]. In the [[Levant]], the Levallois technique was also used by anatomically modern humans during the Middle Stone Age. In [[North Africa]], the Levallois technique was used in the [[Middle Stone Age]], most notably in the [[Aterian]] industry to produce very small projectile points. While Levallois cores do display some variability in their platforms, their flake production surfaces show remarkable uniformity. As the Levallois technique is counterintuitive, teaching the process is necessary and thus language may be a prerequisite for such technology,{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} although Ohnuma, Aoki and Akazawa (1997) found modern humans could be taught the Levallois technique non-verbally at a similar level of effectiveness to verbal teaching.<ref name="Lycettvon Cramon-Taubadel2013">{{cite journal | last1 = Lycett | first1 = S.J. | last2 = von Cramon-Taubadel | first2 = N. | year = 2013 | title = A 3D morphometric analysis of surface geometry in Levallois cores: patterns of stability and variability across regions and their implications | journal = Journal of Archaeological Science | volume = 40 | issue = 3| pages = 1508–1517 | doi=10.1016/j.jas.2012.11.005| bibcode = 2013JArSc..40.1508L }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ohnuma |first1=Katsuhiko |last2=Aoki |first2=Kenichi |last3=Akazawa |first3=And Takeru |date=1997 |title=Transmission of Tool-making Through Verbal and Non-verbal Communication: Preliminary Experiments in Levallois Flake Production |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase1993/105/3/105_3_159/_article |journal=Anthropological Science |volume=105 |issue=3 |pages=159–168 |doi=10.1537/ase.105.159|doi-access=free }}</ref>