Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c6.s7.7

c6.s7.7

The data for the Early Stone Age comes from river gravels and as in Orissa and Madras from detrital laterite. The latter indicates that the man was not present when the laterite was formed owing to a period of much heavier rainfall than today. But subsequently when this was being eroded under another wet phase the tools of man who had lived on the laterite surface got embedded in this washed out material. Hence the tools are heavily stained with a brownish tint.