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Besides East Africa where Pebble tools or ‘Oldowan culture (a term used after the type site Olduvai Gorge) remains’ occur in the earliest context (Leakey, L.S.B., 1951), the spread of this tool tradition in a little later context is also reported from North and South Africa, western Europe, Central, South and South- east Asia (Bordes, 1968, pp. 83-97). Pebble tools in India have concentration in the north and north-west, which appears to form part of the south-east Asian spread of this tradition (Jayaswal, 1982, p.2). Besides, there are also a few small pockets in peninsular India where chopper and chopping tool tradition existed in culture isolation (Jayaswal, 1982, pp. 57-83).