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LURE - THRU THE AGES

LURE - THRU THE AGES

The Early Stone Age is dominated by the handaxes, the cleaver and crude flake tools. This age comprises of sites like the Soan and Beas valley in the Punjab, Adamgarh Hill and Bhera Ghat in Narmada Valley, Gudiyam Cave near Madras, Wainganga River sites, Khandivili near Bombay. Most of the sites mentioned above also revealed Middle Stone Age flake industries. The Late Stone Age sites are widely spread over: Langhnaj (Gujarat),. Adamgarh, Barasimha, Nimkhera, Sakri (Central India), Birbhanpur in West Bengal, Raichur, Jalahalli, Nagarjunakonda, Belgaum in the South.

STONE AGE

EARLY

PRE-HISTORY Early Palaeolithic Industry/Culture

Sites/Regions

Geological Period

Kashmir &the Punjab

Flakes

I Late Early Pleistocene

Chopper/chopping Sohan Culture and Handaxe culture

Kumool and Chittoor (A.P.) Sholapur Doab (Kar) Singhbhum (Bihar) Whole India, except Kerala and Nepal Punjab Whole India, including Kashmir, except Sind and Kerala

II Middle Pleistocene

c. 5,00,000 years B.P.

III Late Pleistocene c. 50,000 B.P. to 20,000 B.P. IV Late Pleistocene c. 20,000 B.P. to 10,000 B.P.

Middle Palaeolithic Scraper/Borer culture Upper Palaeolithic Blade and Burin Culture

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Allahabad (UP)

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Pavagadh (Gujarat)

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Ahmednagarand Jalgaon (M.H.) Bhopal (M.P.)

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LATE

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Sarai Nahar Rai (U.P.) Adamgarh (M.P.) Birbhanpur (W.B.) Sangankar (Andhra - Mysore) Teris (Tamil Nadu) Langhnaj (Gujarat) Bagor (Rajasthan) Patne (Maharashtra)

V. Holocene

Mesolithic Microliths

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c. 8,000 B.C. to 2,000 B.C.

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