Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.33

c9.33

The fact that the microlithic industries of India seem to represent the arrival of new peoples, probably from the west, rather than the fact that they are an evolution out of a more or less non-existent Upper Palaeolithic blade industry, relates them more to those cultures which follow them than to those they supersede. It is not known whether the Indian communities which made the microliths were (as their counterparts in Europe were) hunters and food-gatherers in the Palaeolithic tradition or whether they were agriculturalists;