Title: Core Tool
Date: Lower Paleolithic
Provenance: Mudumala, Mekthal, Narayanapet Dt., Telangana
Medium: Stone
Dimensions(mm): 76 x 69 x 30
Source of Acquisition: Surface Collection
Credit Line: Dr. E. Sivanagi Reddy, Hyderabad
Accession Number: PIF/00ST10
Core tools represent some forms of human technology, typically used for chopping, cutting, or scraping during the Lower Paleolithic period. These tools were made by shaping a stone core, often through repeated flaking, to produce a functional edge.
This quartzite core tool, displaying flaking marks on its surface, is a bifacial unfinished with a faceted butt and a roughly ovate shape, broad at one end and slightly pointed towards the other. The colour is predominantly a variation of grey but ranges to red, pink, yellow, and nearly white.
