An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c30.130

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**Chandraprabha Valley,** Dt Varanasi. A few Lower Palaeolithic tools [4.2] including scrapers and flakes fashioned on quartzite were collected from the bed of the Bhainsahawa Nala, a tributary of the Chandraprabha, at the foot-hills of the HATHINIA PAHAR near Hetimpur village. Microliths [4.5] consisting of cores, flakes, parallel-sided blades, blunted-back blades, lunates, scrapers, points, borers, triangles and trapezes were found at BAIRADUMUHAWAN, KAPISHA, SONABARSA, PANCHPEDIA, MORADABAD, RAJA BABA-KIPAHARI, BHAINSAHAWA, HATHINIA and KUSUMBHAR. Barring HATHINIA all the sites had non-geometric tools, fashioned mainly on cherty material.