Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s3.29

c6.s3.29

If from this orderly picture we return to the Indian problem, the thought occurs that there, too, the pebble-chopper and handaxe industries *may* not be unrelated. Pebbles sharpened bilaterally like great clumsy pencils have suggested the name ‘pebble-handaxes’ (above p. 35), and they may in turn, with the supplementary use of large flakes as cores, have contributed directly to the development of the Abbevillio-Acheulian types. The Acheulian cleaver, as in Africa, is more difficult to fit into any such evolutionary scheme, but may itself be in origin a Clactonian flake with secondary dressing. A real if partial affinity *may* in fact subsist between some facets of the pebble (and flake?) industries and of the great handaxe complex; whether by mere interaction or by genuine kinship is another matter.