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Table 2 listing some material artifacts found in the successive phases of Mehargarh in Baluchistan prove that a large number of materials in the pre-Harappan and mature Harappan cultures were of indigenous origin. A large variety of stone tools were produced during the 7th-4th millennium B.C. period not only in the Mehargarh area but also in the Ganga-Vindhya complex and Bagor area in Rajasthan. Blades and burins of flint, quartzite basalt, dyke basalt, chalcedony, obsidian, jasper, chert etc. were produced in large scale around Mehargarh, Kile Gul Mohammad, Damb Sadaat, Balakot etc.