Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s5.20

c8.s5.20

From these six modes of occurrences we can now easily eliminate the last and to some extent the first. Excavations during the last 10 years or so and a detailed study of the tiny stone tools occurring in them has shown that these tools, though tiny, should not be called microliths. For in them parallel-sided tools preponderate. It is really a " Short Blade industry."¹⁷ Thus it is possible to distinguish between such blades and true microliths. Hence a large group, even of surface tools and their geographical occurrences can be plotted on a map and thus removed from the distribution of microliths.