An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s4.12

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Not much evidence is available to indicate if any artistic objects were made in this country during the Upper Palaeolithic, excepting a fragment of an ostrich eggshell having an engraving in a criss-cross pattern found at PATNE and a bone figurine [a doubtful mother goddess, 12.6] found in a gravel horizon on the BELAN. Of the paintings in the caves and rock-shelters of the Vindhyan and Kaimur ranges in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh the earlier ones might probably belong to this period, though no clear-cut association with the archaeological levels has yet been established [13].