Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.32

c9.32

The Indian microlithic industries have not been found at any site in a geological deposit of known age, nor in such stratigraphical relationship to earlier human industries that a connexion with the final phases of Palaeolithic cultures can be shown. But there is evidence that the industries survived in certain areas at least down to early historic times. They may truly represent a transition from Palaeolithic industries to those of a more advanced or specialized type, but this transition need not have taken place at a period as remote as the parallel phenomenon in countries farther west, since the Palaeolithic cultures themselves may have a very long post-glacial survival.