An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c39.104

v2.c39.104

**Mahadeo Piparia** (23°06'; 79°16'), Dt Narsinghpur. Excavation on the left bank of the Narmada yielded Early and Middle Stone Age (Lower and Middle Palaeolithic [4.2, 3]) tools. The stratigraphy was as follows (from top downwards): (i) light-yellow brownish silt; (ii) cross-bedded sandy deposit with number of intercalations of very fine sand and silt yielding Middle Stone Age (Middle Palaeolithic [4.3]) tools; (iii) disconformity; (iv) red-brown silt; (v) a lens of boulder-gravel yielding a flake with flake scars; (vi) yellow-brown hard kankary silt; (vii) yellow-brown sandy silt; (viii) boulder conglomerate yielding (Middle Palaeolithic [4.3]) and Late Stone Age (Mesolithic [4.5]) tools. *See* NARMADA VALLEY.