An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.161

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The assemblage of tools of the pre-Mesolithic phase occurring in the lower red *murram* in the Bangaltota area comprises flakes, cores, heavy tools and waste flakes of basaltic dyke, indicating the employment of prepared core technique [16.15.2] and representing an advanced stage upon the scraper-borer of the Middle Palaeolithic [4.3] but without blades and burins characteristic of the Upper Palaeolithic [4.4]. It is therefore regarded as probably a facies of the Middle Palaeolithic of the Andhra-Karnataka region. In the latter part of this phase tools of the types are made on quartz as well and are roughly contemporaneous with the earliest phase in the terrace of Sannarasamma hill.