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The technology of microlith making appears to be of local origin in India (Jayaswal, in Press). The appearance and the earliest existence of microliths in our area of study is in association with the fulfledged blade industries of the Upper Palaeolithic period. The techno-typological features borne by microliths indicate that this technocratic group was modification and development over the blade technology. The dimension of the blade element was reduced to form bladelets. Besides, the earlier tradition of modifying edge/edges at high angle was also adopted as an essential process for giving shapes to the implements. Besides, the beginnings of microlith making in central India is datable to circa twenty-fourth millennium B.C. The archaeological remains from Gravel III of the Belan-Seoti valley (Pant, 1982, pp. 101-102) and the Son valley (Sharma & Clark, 1983, p.