An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c35.215

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An unusual feature of the culture is the association of a crude flake industry comprising scrapers, flake blades, cores and many waste flakes made on river pebble, quartz, chert and quartzite. The tools are mostly without any prepared striking platform [16.15.2], the secondary retouch not being prominent, produced by mainly Levalloisian or pseudo-Levalloisian technique [16.15.1]. As these features are characteristic of the pre-Neolithic industry it appears that they are the survival of an autochthonous flake-tool complex prevalent in the upper Kaveri valley.