Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.13

c9.13

This original simple division has by some authorities been modified by the introduction of a third major group, allied to the flake industries but considered worthy of separate distinction, and comprising tools presumed to be used as choppers. This *chopper-chopping tool* group (as it has been called, very clumsily) is of particular importance to Asia, since it includes certain distinctive North Indian Lower Palaeolithic industries which are regarded by other archaeologists as within the flake cultures, without the necessity of further distinction. In South and Central India, however, there is abundant evidence of core cultures about which there is no dispute, and in certain regions fusion in techniques between the two main Indian groups can be seen.