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Similarly, ‘Prepared Core’, ‘Faceted Core’, ‘Faceted Striking Platform’ etc., were the names which replaced the term *Levallois technique* in Africa (PROPA , 1952, p. 9). This was followed in India. Such changes have apparently added much confusion to the study of prehistoric remains. The author supports Bordes’ plea (Bordes 1961, p.13) and holds that the terms related to technique denote a specific process or method of working only. These do not suggest any cultural implications even if the name has been coined after a site of some far distant foreign land (Jayaswal, 1978, pp. 19-22). It may be mentioned that this author prefers to use all such nomenclatures which have wide acceptance in the literature on World Prehistory. This includes all terms denoting periodization, techno-culture stages, tool-types and techniques.