Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c6.s7.t2: Stratigraphic and Climatic Correlation
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c6.s7.t2
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Stratigraphic and Climatic Correlation
c6.s7.t2.1
It thus seems that in Kurnool we have at least two cycles of wet and dry phases after the formation of the laterite. A typical section on the smaller rivers will be as follows :⁶⁷
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⁶⁷ This is adopted with slight variations, leaving out the terms Sohan etc., from KRISHNASWAMI, V.D., "Stone Age India," *A.I.*, No. 3, p. 32.
c6.s7.t2.3
| Upper Pleistocene | Finer Gravels not lateritized | Tools of Series II | Wet Phase V |
| | Gravels and clays | Advanced Hand-axes and Levallois Flakes | Dry Phase IV |
| Middle Pleistocene | River Gravels | End of Hand-axes of Period I | Strong Wet Phase III |
| | Open Plain | Hand-axes of Period I | Dry Phase II |
| Early Pleistocene | Laterite formation on East Coast | No tools. Man absent | Long wet Phase I |
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In effect we come to the same correlation of the tools, the deposits and the climatic oscillations as observed elsewhere.
c6.s7.t2.5
So far most of the tool collections are from the surface and though they have been scientifically classified into various groups on the basis of physical condition, form and technique, the observations of BURKITT and CAMMIADE have been further confirmed by those of later observers viz. that in the lowest or earliest gravel or pebble conglomerate itself one finds a typologically highly advanced tool like an Acheulian hand-axe with a pebble butted one. Thus a stratigraphical division of the industry is not available as elsewhere in India.