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# An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.215

An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.215

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### [v2.c34.215](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c34.215)

Late Pleistocene Stone Age industries are represented by varieties of scrapers (hollow, side, concave, convex, etc.), borers, points on cherts and chalcedony and by flake-blades, blades, etc., on chalcedony. Typologically these industries can be classed as Middle and Upper Palaeolithic \[4.3, 4\] traditions. At INAMGAON a stratified microlithic industry \[4.5\] of about 12000 years B.P. has been recently unearthed and it represents one of the earliest microlithic industries so far discovered in the Indian subcontinent.

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