Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s19.1

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Our surveys shows that the tools called Series II or Middle Stone Age or Middle Palaeolithic or Nevasian have a wide distribution covering Maharashtra (including Konkan), North Mysore, Andhra (particularly northern districts), the whole of Madhya Pradesh, Bundelkhand (which includes south-western Uttar Pradesh), Orissa, Western Rajputana Saurashtra and probably Madras as well. To this we might add Sind, particularly the site of Sukkur,⁸² which, after the data from Luni valley gathered by MISRA, seems to belong to this complex. Further systematic research would show its extension along the western and eastern coast, as well as in Mysore and Madras. Is it really absent [Figure: PHYSIOGRAPHICAL AND CULTURAL DIVISIONS OF INDIA AND MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC CULTURES ▲ LATE SOHAN ■ NEVASIAN (Map showing various regions: SIND, MARWAR, MEWAR, MALWA, BUNDELKHAND, GANGETIC BASIN, HIMALAYAS, ASSAM, BENGAL, TRIBAL COUNTRY, CHATTISGARH, ORISSA, MAHARASHTRA, ANDHRA, KARNATAK, KERALA, TAMILNAD, SAURASHTRA. Legend: AREAS OF ATTRACTION OR NUCLEAR REGIONS, AREA OF RELATIVE ISOLATION, AREAS OF ISOLATIONS, AREAS PENETRATED RECENTLY)]