Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c6.4

c6.4

There are several palaeolithic sites located in Madras, Orissa, Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. From the site of Attirampakkam in Chingleput district of Madras thousands of hand-axes have been picked. Similarly Khyad on the Malaphrabhā in Dharwar, Mungi near Paithan in Hyderabad, are other sites where palaeolithic man once flourished. He lived in caves and rock-shelters near rivers, anxious for national protection and constant water supply. He mostly used quartzite (Hindi, *Bujhā*) for making tools in the form of cores and flakes obtained by fracturing the rough stone.