Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s8.25

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and others have been from the surface and from cave floors. Without a proper excavation, not much use can be made of these reports. Hence a brief reference is made to a comparatively recent work⁴² in the Singrauli Basin in the district of Mirzapur. Here the microliths occur about four feet below the Upper Alluvium along the southern bank of Balia Nadi near Kota. It is predominantly of limpid quartz which is easily available in the vicinity. "It is non-geometric denoted by parallel-sided blades, lunates and points. Only a few tools are either finished or retouched." It may be a degenerate, late Upper Palaeolithic blade industry, ascribable to an early Mesolithic period, when a gradual dryness came over the area after the end of the Palaeolithic period.