Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c6.s3.1

c6.s3.1

Southwards are the large flat alluvial plains, made by the Ganga and its tributaries by washing the Himalayas. These, however, abut on the older rock formation of the peninsular mass viz. the Kaimur Hills, a little south of Banaras and now forming the Mirzapur District. Here COCKBURN⁴¹ had discovered palaeolithic tools from the Singrauli basin in the last century (1888). DE TERRA⁴² after his study of the Himalayan cycle in 1935 had suggested that investigations might be carried out in this region, because the two great geological formations—the Himalayas and the Peninsular—met there and he expected that this feature might reveal contact between the Sohan and the Hand-axe cultures and also throw light on the past climate and tectonic movements. Accordingly it was examined for a short while by ZEUNER and KRISHNASWAMI in 1949 and the results of the latter's study are published.⁴³