السمات العامة للتقنية الحجرية الليفلوازية للعصر الحجري القديم الأوسط بالصحراء الشرقية لأسفل نهر عطبرة-السودان

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This paper will discuss the main technological and typological characteristics of Levallois stone tools from two sites discovered recently in the eastern desert of the Lower Atbara River, in order to identify the main features of Levallois lithic strategies in the area and to compare it’s with the Middle Paleolithic archaeology in the Sudan and north Africa.

Historical description methods with archaeological survey of two selected sites (EDAR 15, 56) are the main methods have been used in this paper as case study for systematic survey and sampling lithics for classification.

The main lithics identified from the classification are large Levallois core with cutting edges and Levallois points.

This material is similar to Middle Paleolithic in northern Africa and Arabia, which is indicate of the role of the area in understanding modern human dispersal out of Africa.

The study recommends to conduct more geological and archaeological research in the area and absolute dating to understand the general chronology and cultural development of Middle Paleolithic archaeology in the area.