An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.492

v2.c34.492

The Lower Palaeolithic industry is composed of about 1000 tools. Besides cores, handaxes, cleavers, scrapers of various types, long blades, etc., there are several waste flakes suggestive of a factory site. The tools from Level 1 are highly patinated and pulverized. While scrapers are of all types, handaxes and cleavers are missing. The tools are smaller in size, one scraper with straight edge with a convex showing cortex on both surfaces and the butt is similar to a find from the PRAVARA (Sankalia, 1962, p. 104). The tools from Level 2 are less weathered. Two handaxes made on elongated pebbly cores with deep flake scars and irregular zigzag outline can be regarded as Abbevillian. The ratio between handaxe and scraper is 1:10. Another significant tool is a long sandstone blade going in close association with the Lower Palaeolithic industry and reported earlier from the Late Sohan assemblage (de Terra and Paterson, 1939, p. 310) and from the Chauntra industry (*ibid.*, pl. XLIII, 4).