@article {308749,
	title = {Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus.},
	journal = {Science},
	volume = {345},
	year = {2014},
	note = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6204/1609},
	month = {2014 Sep 26},
	pages = {1609-13},
	abstract = {<p>The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition (~400,000 to 200,000 years ago) is marked by technical, behavioral, and anatomical changes among hominin populations throughout Africa and Eurasia. The replacement of bifacial stone tools, such as handaxes, by tools made on flakes detached from Levallois cores documents the most important conceptual shift in stone tool production strategies since the advent of bifacial technology more than one million years earlier and has been argued to result from the expansion of archaic Homo sapiens out of Africa. Our data from Nor Geghi 1, Armenia, record the earliest synchronic use of bifacial and Levallois technology outside Africa and are consistent with the hypothesis that this transition occurred independently within geographically dispersed, technologically precocious hominin populations with a shared technological ancestry.</p>},
	keywords = {Animals, Armenia, Biological Evolution, History, Ancient, Hominidae, Humans, Technology},
	issn = {1095-9203},
	doi = {10.1126/science.1256484},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25258079},
	author = {Adler, D S and Wilkinson, K N and Blockley, S and Mark, D F and Pinhasi, R and Schmidt-Magee, B A and Nahapetyan, S and Mallol, C and Berna, F and Glauberman, P J and Raczynski-Henk, Y and Wales, N and Frahm, E and J{\"o}ris, O and MacLeod, A and Smith, V C and Cullen, V L and Gasparian, B}
}
