Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s9: Orissa
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s9
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Orissa
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In Orissa proper, so far microliths have been reported from the districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar and Sundergarh.⁴⁴ And these have completely belied the observations based on insufficient evidence that microliths were not found away from the copper seams.⁴⁵ Normally they occur on surface and the basin of rivers. The latter aspect is important and will be commented on later. Secondly a small excavation by Shri B. K. THAPAR at a site near Baripada,45a Mayurbhanj yielded microliths exactly of the types found by Dr. MOHAPATRA on the surface, in a layer below the ground ones. This definitely indicates the antiquity of microliths in Orissa.
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⁴⁴ MOHAPATRA, G. C., op. cit., p. 260.
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⁴⁵ GORDON in Man, 1938, p. 22.
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45a A later excavation in May 1962 yielded similar results, see I.A.R., 1961-62.