History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c10.s1.t6.41

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It may be mentioned that in the proposed classification there are three other flake types namely, flakes with unprepared dorsal surface but prepared striking platform, partially prepared flakes, and prepared flakes which deserve a few line of explanation. If compared with some of the flakes of the typical Clactonian industries of England, several specimens of the first two types may be found strikingly similar to them. The partially prepared flakes usually bear one or two half negatives on the dorsal surface. It can hardly be proved that these half negatives are marks of core preparation. But at times it is equally difficult to disapprove it either. Many specimens which have been grouped by us as prepared flakes, similarly may be termed as Levallois, if attempts were made to find parallels in some of the European publications (Bordes F. 1961).