Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s1: Discovery at Nevasa
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s1
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Discovery at Nevasa
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Then in 1954-55 tools of quite a different nature and material were discovered at Nevasa on the Pravara, District Ahmednagar. The earlier tools (called initially Series I)—hand-axes, cleavers—were found in a thin basal gravel resting over the rock, while another layer of gravel, fine and less cemented superposed over it, yielded smaller tools (Series II)—scrapers, points and a few blade-like tools on chert and jasper. These have been provisionally called so far "Series II tools."² Further search along the Pravara and the Godavari brought to light several sites, the most important being Bel Pandhari, Suregaon and Kalegaon on the Godavari. At the latter, the tools were found embedded in the head of an extinct type of ox, called *Bos namadicus* Falconer in a thick cemented gravel deposit. *Pl. IV, (Fig. 43b.)*
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² William HOWELL in the *American Museum of Natural History*, Science Series, British Edition, 1947, p. 245. Cited by FÜRER-HAIMENDORF in *Man in India*, Vol. XXVIII, 1948, p. 197.