An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c28.21

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Nearly all the Lower Palaeolithic implements are made on quartzite and fine-grained sandstone that are locally available in the Vindhyan rocks on the hill or as river pebbles. Most of the tools are on flakes obtained from rock blocks or pebbles and consist of handaxes, cleavers, choppers, scrapers, points and flakes, discoids and cores. The standardized forms like handaxes and cleavers constitute about 20% of the total tool collection. Techno-typologically the industry belongs to the typical Acheulian culture but in the absence of clear stratigraphic evidence no further divisions within the Acheulian are possible.