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THE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD
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margins, and lastly, a thick heavy pearlform biface. This is interesting as it shows that crude bifaces continued to be manufactured even after better techniques had been mastered.
Pariakoli
It yielded only one thin biface, possibly a transverse cleaver with pointed butt.
The total number of artifacts, which have been described or are incorporated in 'Excavations in Mayurbhanj' in various tables, is 663 and the proportion is as follows:Pebbles
12.21 % Cores
81.29 % Flakes
7.00 %
Cores thus form by far the largest number and pebble tools are about twice those of flake tools. Proportion of Different Families Name Tools found in-situ
Other (Total number 57) (Total number 663) Round Chopper 10.5 %
10.56 % Side Chopper 12.3 %
13.72 % Knife
8.7 %
6.63 % Rostroid Handaxe 3.5 %
5.24 % Rostrocarinate
0.30 % Handaxe. 38.5 %
44.34 % Cleaver 12.3 %
13.72 % Scraper
8.7 %
2.56 % Point
3.5 %
1.66 % Miscellaneous
1.20 % Hence, the largest number of tools is comprised of choppers, hundaxes and cleavers. Discoid chopper constitute 10.56% and side chopper 13.72% If restroid handaxes
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