An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s6.t6.6

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Both stone and bone tools were used. The stone artefacts comprise pecked and ground tools and blades and blade derivatives, etc. The first group is manufactured out of igneous or metamorphic rocks—granite, syenite, diorite, dolerite, etc., while the latter is of siliceous materials. Pecked and ground tools are of fine-grained stones and comprise edge tools, viz. axes, adzes, chisels, wedges and chopping tools, and non-edge tools like hammer-stones, rubber-stones, pounders, fabricators, querns, etc., of coarse-grained materials. Edge tools helped the rapid clearance of forests and the working of wood. Discarded axes might have served as hoes. Hammer-stones, rubber-stones, querns and the like formed the equipment for pounding or grinding corn and similar purposes. Edge tools are found in various conditions: flaked and edge-ground; with the edge only ground; wholly pecked; or wholly ground. They were also reused, though rarely. The mace-head—a discoidal stone with a central perforation—was used as a weight for the digging stick.