Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s30.1

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Prehistory in India began none too late. The first tool—a ground or polished stone axe was found by MEADOWS TAYLOR at Lingsugur in 1842, though ROBERT BRUCE FOOTE discovered the first palaeolith at Pallavaram near Madras in 1863; so did BALL in 1875 at some four sites in Orissa and HACKETT at Bhutra on the Narmada in 1873 and WYNNE at Mungi-Paithan on the Godavari in 1865 and COCKBURN in the Singrauli basin, South Mirzapur, in 1883.