Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.34

c7.34

The stone industry from this land-surface included a great quantity of waste, due to the uncertain and irregular flaking of the material used. Fluted cores show that many of the blades broke off half-way down the core, but are small monuments of human persistency. Some cores were made from thick flakes, a practice noted elsewhere in central India. Of a hundred implements properly so-called (as distinct from mere flakes), the commonest is the lunate, backed along the arc either from one side or both. Irregular specimens, bulging nearer one end, may be described as points. These may have been used as arrowheads. For the rest, the series includes a few rather crude scrapers, and an oblique-ended point which might almost be described as a burin; but as a whole the industry is a poor one, with few specialized forms.