An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c38.180

v2.c38.180

**Lekhahia'**, Dt Mirzapur, with painted rock-shelters [13] and open-air settlements near village Bhainsaur, two of the former and three of the latter excavated by V.D. Misra of the Univ. of Allahabad (*IAR 1963-4*, p. 51). In the first open-air settlement the lowest layer was not a habitational deposit, but all the upper eight ones yielded microliths. Stratigraphically the earliest of them were parallel-sided blades, blunted-black blades, points, lunates and scrapers together with cores and unfinished tools. Next came both non-geometric and geometric types, the former predominating, followed by geometric types like triangles and trapezes associated with pottery, the quantity of which progressing increased towards the top. The other excavated open-air site yielded comparable results.