Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s3.2

c6.s3.2

On the Pravara, the Acheulian industry occurs also, though rarely, in Gravels II-III; in particular, an unrolled handaxe of chalcedony was found in Gravel II, 8 feet above the top of Gravel I, and a large pear-shaped handaxe of trap, flaked on both sides by fine step-technique and with subsequent retouch along the edge, one side weathered and the other side in mint condition, lay as high as the surface of Gravel III, under the final silt. But the normal industry of the upper two gravels was of another kind, consisting of scrapers, blades, cores, burins and points of agate, chert, chalcedony and jasper. Here is an acceptable Upper Palaeolithic craftsmanship of a sort at present inadequately represented in our Indian material, and further reference will be made to it in the next chapter.