An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.399

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*Pd II*, Middle Palaeolithic [4.3]. This Pd is represented by the middle gravels (Gravel II) at Nevasa and the lowermost gravels at BEL PANDHARI, SUREGAON and KALEGAON, all on the GODAVARI. Associated with the tools at the last site is a complete skull of *Bos namadicus* Falc. A few flakes and cores definitely show a knowledge of the faceted platform technique [16.15.1], though a majority of the tools is a mixture of free-flaking or percussion by a soft cylinder hammer [16.15.1]. Besides flakes and cores, the other tool types are points, scrapers and borers. Genuine blades are completely absent and not a single burin has been found in a stratified deposit, though they have been collected as surface finds. But even though there is an absence of the true blade the industry shows all the characters of an incipient blade industry in the narrow thick parallelsided blade-like flakes, flake-blades and cores showing the production of flake-blades.