Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s4.2

c8.s4.2

So a site like Langhnaj may give fully finished fluted cores and irregular cores as well. The flakes removed from these are comparatively small, not more than an inch or an inch-and-a-half and the one criterion to judge whether these are tools intentionally made by man is that they should be retouched by secondary working either on one edge or both the edges. It may be that these simple flakes, because of the sharp edges, were utilized by man. But there is no evidence with us to say that these were intended by man and hence retouch is an essential guide for defining a microlith.