An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c35.211

v2.c35.211

The discovery of a number of stone tools on the river bank between the bathing *ghat* and the ‘new dam’ provides evidence for the earliest human activity in the area. The tools are of chert, quartz and fossil wood, many having a yellowish patina on the surface, from the exposed deposit of gravel and lime *kankar* overlain by a deposit of river alluvium about 20 cm thick and with the basal rock beneath. The tools are flake blades and varieties of scrapers produced by prepared core and cylinder hammer techniques [16.15.1] and have reasonably been assigned to the pre-Neolithic period.