Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s12: North Karnatak
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s12
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North Karnatak
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Further up in Northern Karnatak the conditions are as in South-eastern India. Genuine microliths can be distinguished from blades of the Chalcolithic culture. Though both occur together in several sites along the river banks, the former occur exclusively, either in rock-shelter and caves like the Shidlapadi near Badami,⁵⁸ and the foot-hills near Bilgi and also in the top, loose deposits capping the old alluvium. The material is generally carnelian and such varieties of chalcedony, though occasionally chert and jasper which formed the chief source of the Middle Palaeolithic people is also there. No site is so far excavated and so no idea can be had of the age of the microliths.
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⁵⁸ I.A.R., 1955-56, p. 5.