Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c6.s6.t2: Evolution in Industry
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c6.s6.t2
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Evolution in Industry
c6.s6.t2.1
If these observations which are still tentative are confirmed by further work then it will have a great significance for the Palaeolithic industry of Orissa. For if we now turn to the tools found from Kamarpal and Kuliana it is said that: (i) a majority of the tools from the boulder conglomerate were made on ovalish pebbles by removing a few flakes; (ii) the hand-axes or bifaces were also crudely made, only showing more work; (iii) these hand-axes showed further improvement and resemble Acheulian ones.⁵⁸
c6.s6.t2.2
⁵⁸ Summarised from BOSE, NIRMAL KUMAR, "Geological and Cultural Evidences of the Stone Age in Mayurbhanj," *Man in India*, Vol. 28, pp. 49-55.
c6.s6.t2.3
Then there is a definite typological evolution. The only weak point in this is that we are not sure whether the lower part of the boulder conglomerate does not contain *any* evolved hand-axes. Were it to contain *only* pebble tools as at Olduvai in East Africa it could have been definitely asserted that in Orissa we have a development of the hand-axe industry from the pebble tools which might be dated to the Lower Pleistocene. As yet there is no site in India where we have undisputed data for such an earlier dating and such evolution.