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iowabow:

--- Quote from: JoJoDapyro on December 01, 2015, 10:59:30 am ---I'm only 1.1% Just got my results back from National Geographic. I watched it last night too. On Netflix, Decoding Neanderthals, it is a Nova program. Good watch.

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how were you tested?

JoJoDapyro:
National Geographic has a test. called the Genographic project. Give it a google. 

Bone pile:
I watched Claude Van Order make a point like this. Very interesting concept. All percussion and very sharp
roger

Jodocus:
No I would not say it takes more or less intelligence to knap one way or the other, but levallois points sure have a sharper edge  :o than the typical neolithic style ones.

John32r:

--- Quote from: Jodocus on December 06, 2015, 02:47:33 am ---No I would not say it takes more or less intelligence to knap one way or the other, but levallois points sure have a sharper edge  :o than the typical neolithic style ones.

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Not only that, Levallois material possesses the ultimate in plano-convexity, and because of its greater surface area, it can be retouched a greater number of times, meaning it is the most economically efficient flintknapping technique ever devised, and produces the best tools.

This paper was written by the individual featured on the decoding Neanderthals program.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029273

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HfwXXqK1eU

No one but a modern genius can have a masterful comprehension of this method. It was practiced by anatomically modern human-Neanderthal hybrids in the Levant, who are believed to have been acculterated by the Neanderthals as they left Africa, approximately 100,000 years ago, and also at Mal'ta-Buret approximately 24,000 years ago.

Amazingly, Levallois artifacts have been found at possibly pre-Clovis sites in North America -- this is most interesting as Native Americans have close genetic affinities to Mal'ta-Buret and are believed to have descended, in part, from a Mal'ta-like population.

http://www.academia.edu/3412562/Capps_A_Levallois-like_Prepared_Core_Technology_in_the_Southeastern_United_States

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