A History of Agriculture in India v1.c13.s2.4

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The floor of one of the caves at Bhimbetaka was dug (Fig. 38). At the lowest level, pebble tools of the Soān type were found, followed by Acheulian hand-axes. Above them were middle Palaeolithic (30,000 to 100,000 B.P.) cherts and jaspers, followed by the upper Palaeolithic non-geometrical microliths, in which blades and burins were prominent. The next layer relates to the Mesolithic Period (10,000 to 7,000 B.P.) in which geometrical microliths and bone tools were found.