Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s4.3

c8.s4.3

Normally microliths comprise the following: cores, fluted and irregular with many platforms; parallel-sided flakes or blades; scrapers of many types—side, hollow, steep, round etc. according to the nature of the re-touch on the tool; triangles—scalene, equilateral, isosceles,—trapeze, burunates or crescents. The last two may be retouched either on the curved (convex) back or on the chord sides, but rarely on both. It has been shown by studies in England that these omnibus group may be divided into (1) Geometric microliths comprising mainly triangles, trapeze etc. and (2) non-geometric. Stratigraphically, the latter precedes the former in some of the type sites in Europe as well as in Africa.