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Understanding the Creation of Small Conical Cupules in Daraki‑Chattan (India)

2013; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/palethnologie.4657

2108-6532

R Rama Krishna, G Sunil Vijaya Kumar,

Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology

The present paper is in continuation of our efforts to understand the creation of cupules in Daraki-Chattan by the process of cupule replication, started in 2002.Daraki-Chattan is one of the richest Palaeolithic cupule sites in the world.It is situated in the heavily metamorphosed quartzite buttresses of Indragarh hill in the Chambal basin in central India.It bears more than 500 cupules executed on both its vertical walls.The excavations carried out at Daraki-Chattan under the EIP Project have produced unambiguous evidence of Lower Palaeolithic petroglyphs.Daraki-Chattan is being studied under the EIP Project.We have identified four categories of cupules at Daraki-Chattan. 1. big circular cupules, saucer-shaped or deeply rounded; 2. circular or oval cupules of conical shape; 3. small smooth cupules of shallow or deep depth; 4. small cupules with angular periphery and deep angular depth.Circular conical cupules about 30 to 40 mm in diameter and a depth of more than 5 mm represent category 2. We really need to show how hard it is to make a small cupule of 30 to 3 mm in diameter of conical shape and a depth of 9 mm.