[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c40.462 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.462 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.462 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c40.462](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.462) \*\*Nittur\*\*¹, (15°32′; 76°50′), Dt Bellary, on the right bank of the Tungabhadra at a distance of 48 km n.-w. of Bellary and 5 km w. of TEKKALAKOTA, the area around the village being dotted with hillocks and streams. In 1963-4 Ansari (Ansari, 1970, pp. 1-7) found pebble tools in association with the remains of \*Bos\* on the right bank of the river, which has a fine cliff section, about 4·5 m high from the river (\*IAR 1963-4\*, p. 24). Here a cemented pebbly gravel is capped by highly kankarized red silt, which is turn is overlain by a thin layer of black soil (Sankalia, 1974, pp. 72-4). The conglomerate has been eroded at a number of places, thus probably releasing the tools and animal remains embedded in it. Among the 31 collected pebble tools, all made on dyke basalt, 11 are unifacial and 13 bifacial. The unifacial choppers show four types of working edges: (1) pointed, (2) straight, (3) convex, and (4) concave. In the bifacial group there are (1) edge around the periphery, (2) cleaver-like edge and (3) convex edge. The fossils include the remains of vertebrae and a skull and horns of \*Bos namadicus\*. This discovery is significant in that for the first time pebble tools of the chopper-chopping tradition have been discovered in the peninsular handaxe region \[4.2\]. - [Previous: v2.c40.461](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.461) - [Next: v2.c40.463](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.463) - [Up: v2.c40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.462](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.462) · Pramāṇa