The tool technology of premodern Homo sapiens in the Middle Pleistocene:
a. incorporated the sophisticated use of bone and early forms of pottery.
b. was the Levallois technique in Southwest Asia only.
c. discontinued the use of stone flakes.
d. carried over from the Acheulian tools of Homo erectus with little change until near the end of the period.
e. continued to be mainly the Oldowan tradition.
d
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