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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
LATE
Geological Period
I
Late Early Pleistocene
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.
PRE-HISTORY
Early Palaeolithic
Industry/Culture
Flakes
Chopper/chopping
Sohan Culture
and Handaxe
culture
Middle Palaeolithic
Scraper/Borer
culture
Upper
Palaeolithic
Blade and Burin
Culture
V. Holocene
c. 8,000 B.C.
to
2,000 B.C.
Mesolithic
Microliths
i.
Kumool and Chittoor
(A.P.)
ii.
Sholapur Doab (Kar)
iii.
Singhbhum (Bihar)
iv.
Allahabad (UP)
v.
Pavagadh (Gujarat)
vi.
Ahmednagarand
Jalgaon (M.H.)
vii.
Bhopal (M.P.)
i.
Sarai Nahar Rai (U.P.)
ii.
Adamgarh (M.P.)
iii.
Birbhanpur (W.B.)
iv.
Sangankar
(Andhra - Mysore)
v.
Teris (Tamil Nadu)
vi.
Langhnaj (Gujarat)
vii.
Bagor (Rajasthan)
viii.
Patne (Maharashtra)
Sites/Regions
Kashmir &the Punjab
Punjab
Whole India,
including
Kashmir, except Sind
and Kerala
Whole India, except
Kerala and Nepal