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AN EARLY HISTORY OF ORISSA in Quarry "C'; the date of the latter thus remaining as obscure as before. Kuliana-Tank 'A'
The earliest tool was a small thick knife-like tool and a pebble trimmed into the form of an end-scraper. A sidechopper with convex working edge and a thick margin opposite, suitable as a holder, came next in the first trench.
In the second trench, the earliest tool was a larger flake knife, which was, first of all, detached from a boulder and then dressed marginally. Its platform is unprepared and inclines at an angle of 115° with the ventral face, so that the flake resembles Clactonian tools, but with the difference that its margin shows some neat retouch, some of which is alternate and laid close to one another. A finely finished amygdaloidal biface of vein-quartz came much later and was shortly followed by a rather irregular cleaver. A heavy side-chopper, with a thick edge for holding it, followed next.
Two more tools discovered in-situ were a spindle-shaped biface and an irregular chopper on pebble, but they were found in isolation and so cannot be related to the two excavations. Kuliana.-Tank 'B'
The earliest tool was a biface with one convex and another straight lateral margin which might have been used as a knife or a large side scraper. This was followed by a pointed pebble tool, possibly a borer. A rostroid handaxe with truncate anterior (broken ?) came next, but its workmanship is much cruder than that of the biface found deeper down. This was followed by two rather irregular bifaces.
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