A History of Agriculture in India v1.c13.3

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Microliths are widespread throughout the Indian subcontinent. Gujarat (Langhnaj), Madhya Pradesh (Adamgarh, Barasimha, Nimkhera, Sakri, etc.), the region between the central Indian hills and the Gangetic plains (Barakaccha, Sidhpur, Lekhania in the Mirzapur District, and Morhana Pahar), Birbhanpur on the Damodar in West Bengal, Karnataka (Raichur, Jalahalli, Kibbanahalli and Belgaum), and Andhra Pradesh (Nagarjunakonda) are particularly rich in Mesolithic sites. Mesolithic sites are common in Maharashtra. Microliths occur in the sands of the Godavari and the Wainganga rivers, on the hill surfaces at Ellora, and in the caves at Pachad and Hathkambha in Konkan. The tools comprise a large number of indeterminate flakes, blades, burins, geometric forms like the lunates, trapezes and triangles, scrapers and discoids, and small chopping-tools, and points of various types, including a few pressure-flaked bifacial ones.