An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.708

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The Lower Palaeolithic tool kit from Nevasa consists of handaxes, cleavers, scrapers, choppers, hammer-stones, etc. The tool types of the Middle Palaeolithic industry comprise scrapers, borers and points. An assemblage consisting of thick long blades and burins comparable with the Upper Palaeolithic [4.4] was also recovered from this site; this was then called Series III. The mammalian fossils found in the alluvial deposits in association with lithic industries at Nevasa are: *Bos namadicus*, *Bubalus palaeindicus*, *Elephas namadicus*, *Palaeoloxodon antiquus*, *Stegodon insignis*, *Batagur* sp., *Cervus* sp., *Hexaprotodon namadicus*, *Trionyx* sp. and *Crocodilus* sp.