Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s12: Tool Percentage
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s12
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Tool Percentage
c7.s12.1
Since this collection goes on increasing every year, it is not statistically treated. For the present, the figures arrived at by BANERJEE are given here.¹⁸ Of the total collection of 1851, nearly half is a stratified number from Bel Pandhari, Kalegaon, Nevasa and Nandur-Madhmeshwar. And of the entire collection only about 21 per cent consists of regular tool types, leaving out cores, flakes, utilized nodules and rejects. This small assemblage includes only four main tool types:
c7.s12.2
¹⁸ For a complete analysis and statistics, see, ibid., p. 145.
c7.s12.3
| I | Points | ... | ... | ... | 15·7% (60) |
| II | Scrapers | ... | ... | ... | 57·3% (219) |
| III | Borers | ... | ... | ... | 24·9% (95) |
| IV | Scraper-Borer | ... | ... | ... | 2·1% (8) |