Paleolithic India

Lower paleolithic. 1.7 mya to 172 kya. S Pappu and Akhilesh 2018.

Middle Paleolithic. 172 kya to 40 kya

Upper paleolithic. 40kya to 10kya

Lower. Hand chopper cleaver chopping. Made of quartzite with direct percussion method.

Middle. Flake point Scraper Borer. Quartzite and Jasper using levallois technique.

Upper. Blade burin scraper. Quartz. Fluting technique. 

Bhimbetka. Bifacial. Cleavers. Levallois flakes. Side scraper. Points. Made of quartzite. No chopper chopping and abbevilian. 

Soan. Evolved pebble tools and clactonian flake tools. Later Levallois tools. Chauntra near Rawalpindi has hand axes cleavers and choppers of pebbles. Possibly two different cultures. because same stratigraphic contacts has bifacial tools existing with non bifacial tools of soan. 

Madras. Bifacial hand axes cleavers and flake tools.attirampakkam cleavers have narrow waists indicating halfting. 

Nevasa. Middle paleolithic site. Pravara river valley. HD sankhalia 1955. Scrapers points Borers made on flakes using - chert, chalcedony, agate, jasoer. Cleaver handaxe also found. Similar to Mousterian culture of Europe and middle stone age of Africa. OS Nagari and Sabarmati valley. 

Mucheta Chintamani gavy. Kurnool. Murthy 1970. Upper paleolithic site which prominent bone tool industry 90% and most are not retouched. Scrapers, perforators, chisel shouldered points spatula. Gazelle, Felix. Groove and splinter technique. Ostrich egg shell ornament. Female figures. Paintings.