Lower Palaeolithic petroglyphs and hammerstones obtained from the excavations at Daraki-Chattan Cave in India

• Autores: Giriraj Kumar, Narayan Vyas, Robert G. Bednarik, Arakhita Pradhan
• Localización: Préhistoire, art et sociétés: bulletin de la Société Préhistorique de l'Ariège, ISSN 1954-5045, Nº. 65-66, 2010-2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: L'art pléistocène dans le monde), págs. 152-153
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Daraki-Chattan in the Chambal basin is the richest known Pleistocene cupule site in the world. Here excavations were conducted by the Rock Art Society of India in collaboration with the Archaeological Survey of India under the EIP Project for five seasons from 2002 to 2006. The excavations established that the site was in use mostly in the Lower Palaeolithic. The excavations also yielded twenty-eight cupules on exfoliated rock slabs, two still lying in the trench, and ten hammerstones from different levels of the excavated sediments right from close to bedrock. Besides, a stone block bearing two linear petroglyphs was discovered from layer three. The paper presents the contextual study of the cupules and hammerstones excavated from this site.