Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s22.5

c4.s22.5

These discoveries proved beyond doubt that man, the maker of stone tools, and the associated animals—such as lion, elephant, rhinoceros, ox, belonged to a time and clime which were not only of hoary antiquity but belonged to a time when Europe was much different climatically and to some extent geographically. Thus the new disciplines of palaeogeography, palaeobotany, palaeoclimatology—what is now called "Environmental Archaeology"—were slowly being ushered in, though their regular establishment in Universities was much later.