Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c5.s3: New Impetus
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c5.s3
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New Impetus
c5.s3.1
Whatever interest we behold today is solely due to the impact of Western thought and science. So after FOOTE, it took nearly three decades to revive interest in Indian prehistory and another decade to arouse the official world—the Archaeological Survey of India—and still another fifteen years for its establishment there.
c5.s3.2
It began with the work of CAMMIADE and RICHARDS, two British-Indian Civilians. These during their tours in present Andhra and Madras States had collected thousands of palaeoliths and other stone tools. These were studied by BURKITT who proposed a climatic and typological correlation with that of Africa.