The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex
Year: 2022
Type: book-review
Abstract: Nubian Levallois technology has recently risen to the forefront ofdebates surrounding Late Pleistocene human technological behavior,cultural traditions, and demographic histories. Named after the regionwhere it was first identified, Nubian Levallois describes a specificmethod of lithic point production that occurs in Middle Palaeolithic (or Middle Stone Age) assemblages across arid North Africa, the Levant and Arabia.1–9However, the recent identification of Nubian technology in separate, disconnected regions, such as SouthAfrica10–12and possibly India13,14suggests there are more diversescenarios of its emergence and spread than the original model of abroad Nubian technocomplex related to a single, expandingpopulation from its north‐east African heartland.3While fewassemblages containing Nubian technology are directly dated, itsproposed MIS 5 timing coincides with early modern human dispersalsout of Africa, adding a further dimension of whether certain lithictechnologies can be linked to specific geographic populations.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21958
Institutions: Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour, University of Algarve, Israel Antiquities Authority, Histoire Naturelle des Humanités Préhistoriques, Musée de l'Homme, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Archeology, Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Tübingen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Southern Methodist University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Ronin Institute, University of Wollongong
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4294613140