Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c6.s1.2

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DE TERRA'S work is a skillful correlation of the geological and climatic events in the Kashmir valley with the geological deposits containing human records in the foothills of the south-western Himalayas, which constitute what is called the Siwalik hills and the Potwar plateau. The Siwaliks run continuously from the north-west, from the plains of Bannu, near Peshawar to the Brahmaputra in Assam in the east. The Potwar is an elevated plain—a plateau—and includes the Rawalpindi and other districts of Western Panjab. It is the ancient Panchanada, drained by the Indus, the Sohan, the Jhelum, Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas.