Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.25

c7.25

There are many places in India, such as the banks of the Narbadā, where the most casual collector can readily fill his pockets with these small flakes and implements. Their material—often chalcedony, agate, or other semi-precious stones—catches the eye, and their minute size stimulates curiosity and acquisitiveness. Many of them are undoubtedly the remains of composite tools, of which wood or bone formed a part; for example, arrow-shafts with barbs of small sharp flakes such as lunates, inset and gummed near the point on opposite sides of the shaft. Most of them, on the other hand, can only be described as 'industrial waste'.