The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c13.s3.t1.30

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A similar industry of a high antiquity and associated with weathered soil profile and terrace system of the river Damodar has been located by B. B. Lal near Birbhanpur in Dist. Burdwan,¹ West Bengal. The tools lie in a weathered sandy loam, which rests on detrital laterite. There are a very wide range of a non-geometric microlithic tools with a few doubtful trapezes. The most interesting tools however, are fine² burins (polyhedral and bec-de-flute). This industry is very interesting in view of the occurrence wide of spread non-geometric elements in Eastern India. In the summer of 1953, the writer explored areas around Chakradharpur in the company of K. D. Banerji.³ Sen and Uma Chaturvedi have published a paper on microliths from this same area.⁴