An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c21.s15.9

v1.c21.s15.9

The tools of the e. Neolithic [4.6.6] have been manufactured by means of flaking, pecking and grinding techniques. So far it was thought that the square-cut shoulders of shouldered axes were obtained by wire-cutting, but it is now felt that this effect could have been produced by using a sliver of bamboo or a sharp-edged shell piece. Among the axes the splayed, shouldered and quadrangular types are very characteristic of this region. It is generally believed that these types, more particularly the shouldered variety, were borrowed from e. Asia (s.-w. China and Indo-China).