Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s20: Chief Features
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s20
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Chief Features
c7.s20.1
Regarding the character of the tools, she has noted the constant occurrence of scrapers of several types as well as awls, on all the sites she visited. Her collection also includes small choppers and chopping tools. We are not sure of the last two, for certain scrapers in our collection might be described as such, though these are also comparatively rare. She thinks that small hand-axes formed originally a part of the tool-kit of this culture, but later dropped out. The association of a small hand-axe with the scraper, the awl and the point was first observed in a stratified context at Nevasa, and has been noticed in Kurnool, Malwa, Bundelkhand and Western Rajputana.
c7.s20.2
ALLCHIN has commented on the absence of a true point and added that the man of the period must have had to depend upon hard wood as the only alternative for spears or arrows. Such a conclusion is unwarranted. For fine points, fully or partly retouched on the two lateral sides are reported from a number of areas, whereas MISRA has in his collection from the Luni, points worked on both the faces. Larger points characterize SINGH'S collection from the Betwa. These small or big points must have been used as arrow or spearhead respectively.