Early History of Orissa

SR No.: 006922
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Amarchand Mittal
Publisher: Jain Cultural Research Society
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 506
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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AN EARLY HISTORY Of Orissa
must indicate that progress was restricted during a considerable period of time.
Correlations
The Kuliana industry also shows certain amount of agreement with industries from other parts of India as well as of some far off countries. For instance, discoids and side-choppers' are very much similar to Waylands Early Kafnan and Leakey's Oldowan Industries of East Africa. 2 They are also similar to the pebble tools from the Punjab described by Paterson. Some of the handaxes of Kuliana, particularly the larger ones having a heavy butt and broad anterior, are not unlike Stellenbosch coups-de-poing described and illustrated by Burkitt.4Some cleavers from Kuliana show a rhomboidal section as in one from Pniel illustrated by Burkitt. A rather narrow, long, pick-like handaxe found in-situs with a roughly rhombiodal section, is similar to a tool described and illustrated by Sandford."
The Mayurbhanj palaeoliths have also much in common with those discovered in the Singrauli Basin in the Mirzapur district of the Eastern Uttara Pradesh.8 The similarity of the quartzite industry of both these areas is shown in
1. Like type B -I (a), B- I (b) etc., illustrated in Excavations in
Mayurbhanj, p. 128. 2. Leaky-Stone Age Africa, 1936, pp. 38f. 3. De Terra & Paterson-Studied in the Ice Age in India and
Associated Human Cultures, 1939, pp. 305f. 4. South Africa's Past in Stone and Paint, 1928, pp. 69f, Fig. vi. 5. Ibid, Fig, ix. 6. Bose & Sen-op. cit., No. 47, Kb. 6. C-1. 7. Palaeolithic Man and the Nile Valley in Upper and Middle
Eypt, 1994, p. 111, Plate, xix, 8. V. D. Krishnaswamy & K. V. S. Soundarajan - The Lithic
Tool Industry of the Singrauli Basin, District Mirzapur, Ancient India, Vol. VIII, Jan. '51, pp. 40-65. (Contd.)