Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.s1: Notes to Chapter II
Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.s1
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Notes to Chapter II
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Pleistocene cultures and chronology in the Orient as well as elsewhere are discussed by Professor F. E. Zeuner in *Dating the Past* (1946), and the Indian material is conveniently summarized by V. D. Krishnaswami in *Ancient India*, no. 3 (1947), 11-57. The most important special studies are H. H. De Terra and T. T. Paterson, *Studies on the Ice Age in India and Associated Human Cultures* (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1939), and H. L. Movius, *Early Man and Pleistocene Stratigraphy in Southern and Eastern Asia* (Papers of the Peabody Museum, Harvard, 1944). Accessible summaries of the main points in this latter book and of the current views on *Pithecanthropus* are given by Professor W. E. Le Gros Clark in *Antiquity*, XIX (1945), 1-5; *ibid.*, XX (1946), 9-12. For a general summary of our knowledge of fossil men in Asia and elsewhere, see the same writer’s *History of the Primates* (1949).
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The Upper Palaeolithic in Western Asia and in Europe is treated by Professor Dorothy Garrod in *Proc. Prehist. Soc.*, IV (1938), 1-26. For the cave-paintings in India, see Krishnaswami’s paper referred to above, and Col. D. H. Gordon’s paper on those of the Mahadeo Hills in *Indian Art and Letters*, X, 35-41. For the stone axe culture in Mysore, Professor Wheeler’s excavation report is in *Ancient India*, no. 4 (1948), 181-310. He has described the ‘Northern Black Polished Ware’, referred to in connexion with the Burzahom site, in *Ancient India*, no. 1 (1946), 55-58.