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In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the Neolithic tool-kit comprises small triangular axes as the major type, along with a considerable proportion of quaerns and mullers and microliths. The east Indian Neolithic complex is characterized by shouldered axes. While the south Indian sites which have concentration in Karnataka, Andhra and Tamilnadu, have axes similar to the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar region. Though techno-typological features of the Neolithic tool-kit of India compares well, in general term with other parts of the world, particularly West Asia, the cultural debris of this region is of later date.