Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.41

c9.41

This evidence, then, shows that in certain areas of South India at least the ‘Neolithic’ cultures are of relatively late date, surviving almost to the dawn of recorded history. Wheeler has published a map showing the known distribution of stone axes and microliths in India; they appear to occur almost exclusively to the south and east of a line from the Gulf of Cambay to Lucknow, with a few microlithic sites between Cambay and Karachi.