Levallois
- a variation of Levalloisian.
Example Sentences
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The stone tools were made with a so-called Levallois method: typical of the area’s modern humans, as well as of Neanderthals who appeared later in the region.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 24, 2021
He didn’t play in the league last season, instead playing for French professional team Levallois Metropolitans.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2018
We first spot Emily as a ghost flitting across the Great Dismal Swamp, but Levallois initially sees her as a beautiful young woman who represents “both a past and future that could be possessed.”
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2018
Archaeologists analyzed more than 7,200 stone tools and found that this sophisticated tool-making technique, called Levallois, began replacing clunkier and more primitive stone tools between 449,000 and 321,000 years ago.
From The Verge ● Jan. 31, 2018
Sunday, 14th May: Vigorous cannonade from the batteries of Courbevoie, Bécon, Asnières on Levallois and Clichy: both villages evacuated.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John
