An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c28.79

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There is a complete absence of stone tools at the site, only six fluted cores of chert, chalcedony and quartz having been found, while a couple of microliths were found in the middle and upper strata in the previous excavation. Surprisingly however a few Middle Palaeolithic tools [4.3] such as scrapers and borers made on quartz have been collected. It has been suggested by the excavator that the hills around Udaipur are full of quartz veins which could have been used in Middle Palaeolithic times. These were also exploited in the Chalcolithic period for collecting quartz nodules used in the walls. It is quite likely that in the process Middle Palaeolithic scrapers found their way into later structures.