The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c13.s3.t1.36

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Finally Krishnaswamy discovered in the Singrauli basin a microlithic industry four feet below the upper alluvium on the southern banks of Balia nadi ⁵ where the evidence is in conformity with the provisional dating assigned to early microlithic sites. This site is distributionally linked with the microlithic sites in the Banda, Bundelkhand and Baghelkhand. The general nature of the Singrauli microliths (backed blades, parallel sided blades, lunates, cores and coarse scrapers and arrow-heads in milky quartz), reminds us of a degenerate Upper Palaeolithic blade tradition and the entire industry, devoid of any associated pottery, can probably be ascribed to an early Mesolithic period.⁵