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(4) *Levallois Blade Technique* : Blades detached by Levallois technique evidence a transition between the flake detaching technique and the blade techniques. In fact it is imperfect or proto-technique of obtaining blade. The broad and rectangular specimens of this category many a times have lesser length in comparison to the ratio of breadth. Thus, they fall short of the definition of true blades. Presence of this technique, to the best of our knowledge is neither reported nor has this author observed in the Indian Stone Age collections. Various scholars have experimented on the different ways of obtaining blades. The result acquired helped understanding and elaborating the processes of blade detaching techniques. Experiments carried out by Bordes and Crabtree (1969), has well demonstrated the process. They write, “ the first step of core preparation is to eliminate the rounded surface and establish at first striking platform for preparation of a ridge which is to guide the first blade.