Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c8.23

c8.23

Investigation of the Indian Stone Age was neglected, after the pioneer work of Bruce Foote, until the 1930's, when Mr Miles Burkitt turned to the interpretation of certain South Indian material at much the same time as other workers were investigating ancient stone industries and geological phenomena in the north-west. This culminated in a joint expedition by the Universities of Yale and Cambridge in 1935, led by de Terra and Patterson, and their work has been supplemented by that of Movius and Krishnaswami. The studies of these investigators have made us acquainted with an extremely important series of Old Stone Age human industries associated with geological deposits which, in the river-terraces of the Himalayan region at all events, seem to offer promising correlations with the known sequence in Northern Europe.