Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.45

c7.45

Certainly at the end of the story, in and before the 3rd century B.C., the technical level was a low one. The pre-Iron Age culture at the inland site of Brahmagiri, which was of this period,** was fairly extensively sampled and produced only a crude flake-industry with a microlithic bias—small backed-knives, serrated blades, one crested flake, a beaked burin (?), side-scrapers, and an inferior lunate. These poor implements were associated with polished stone axes and occasional copper and bronze, and would seem to represent the microlithic tradition at its last gasp.