An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c39.745

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**Modi,** Dt Mandsaur. Palaeoliths in the Chambal valley, rock-shelters with paintings [13] and a large number of lithic tools consisting of triangles, lunates, flakes, and blades, mainly of chalcedony, and pottery. Excavation in a painted rock-shelter shown 10 undisturbed layers, the lowest of which produced Middle (Middle Palaeolithic [4.3]) and Late Stone Age (Mesolithic [4.5]) tools. In layer 9 there were geometric microliths and in 8 an anvil stone and a small heap of haematite grains. In layers 7, 6 and 5 there were more microliths but no pottery. Layer 4 was sterile. Layers 3, 2 and 1 produced potsherds of the 11th and 12th centuries and a few unfinished beads. *IAR 1956-7; 1958-9.* Wakankar, V.S., & Brooks, R.R.R., 1976, *Stone Age Painting in India*, Bombay.