An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c31.329

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As shown in the table the three main industries are; (1) flake-blade industry at the top consisting of scrapers, points, blades, knives, cores or flakes. Below the flake-blade industry is (2) flake industry of scrapers, hand-axes, points, borers and cores. And at the bottom is (3) chopper and biface industry with choppers, handaxes, cleavers, scrapers, worked flakes and unclassified bifaces. The raw material for both the flake-blade and flake industries is mainly chert, jasper, chalcedony, flint, etc., while quartzite is the raw material for the chopper and biface industry. The Lower Palaeolithic cultures of Dhalbhum are homotaxial with those of the other parts of Singhbhum.