... While the Levallois method was once widely viewed as a Middle Paleolithic innovation, the idea that it was practiced in the Levantine Acheulian, and especially the late Acheulian assemblages, is no longer outside the mainstream. Its roots in the Lower Paleolithic Acheulian have been demonstrated by a plethora of studies during the last four decades in sites in Africa (Rolland, 1995;Tryon, 2006;de la Torre, 2010;Wilkins et al., 2010), Europe (Villa, 2009;Despriée et al., 2010;Nowell and White, 2010;Moncel et al., 2011;Moncel et al., 2011;Rodríguez et al., 2011;Ollé et al., 2013;Picin et al., 2013;Moncel et al., 2015;Hérisson et al., 2016), the Levant (Gilead and Ronen, 1977;Goren, 1979;Ronen et al., 1980;Goren-Inbar, 1985;Chazan, 2000;DeBono and Goren-Inbar, 2001;Goren-Inbar, 2011;Shimelmitz et al., 2016;Zaidner and Weinstein-Evron, 2016;Goren-Inbar et al., 2018;Chazan 2020), and the Caucasus (Adler et al., 2014). Additionally, recent publications demonstrate that the Levallois method appears earlier than previously thought in India (Akhilesh et al., 2018) and perhaps even in China (Hu et al., 2019, although see Li et al., 2019. ...