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# An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c30.130

An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c30.130

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### [v2.c30.130](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c30.130)

\*\*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.

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