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Middle Palaeolithic stone tool technology in the Kortallayar Basin, South India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Shanti Pappu
Shanti Pappu*
Affiliation:
Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, Flat No.2, Vasundhara Apartments, Kasturba Housing Society, Vishrantwadi, Pune 411015, Maharashtra, India.
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A study of the Middle Palaeolithic stone tool technology from assemblages in South India reveals diverse reduction strategies, including preferences exercised in the choice of row material and blanks for tool manufacture. Various behaviour patterns are identified which have significant implications for the relatively little known Indian Middle Palaeolithic

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IndiaKortallayar basinMiddle Palaeolithiclithics
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 287 , March 2001 , pp. 107 - 117
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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