[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.c42.299 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.299 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.299 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c42.299](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.299) \*\*Patne,\*\* Dt Jalgaon. Excavation provided evidence of a succession of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic \[4.3, 4\] and Mesolithic \[4.5\] industries. The Middle Palaeolithic industry comprised scrapers, points, borers on flakes, blades and corresponding cores as well as burins. An ostrich egg-shell piece was found in association with the lithic tools. The Upper Palaeolithic industry was dominated by blades and burins or tools made on blades. The other finds in association with the stone tools included fresh-water shells, a few fragmentary unidentifiable animal bones and beads. The Mesolithic tools were chiefly made on chalcedony and included varieties of blades, lunates, triangles, trapezes, crescentic and other points and a small proportion of burins. This is the first open-air site in India which has given a continuous sequence of Stone Age cultures from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic through the Upper Palaeolithic. The evidence is so clear here that each period and phase is marked by a change in the mode of sedimentation. \*IAR 1972-3.\* - [Previous: v2.c42.298](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.298) - [Next: v2.c42.300](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.300) - [Up: v2.c42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.299](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.299) · Pramāṇa