Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s7.30

c8.s7.30

ANDERSON noticed chert flakes in river sections on the Sanjai and its tributaries. These were found according to him on the top of gravel deposit which overlies whitish clay or schist. Whether this gravel is old, that is Pleistocene, or comparatively recent is difficult to say without first hand examination. So also about the tools. Elsewhere microliths occur in the latest gravel deposits. There is also a possibility that these tools which look like microliths are older, belonging to Middle Palaeolithic complex. For 18 ft. of reddish clay over lay the gravel, and hence the tools if not plastered on with the gravel as a rewash, but really in situ should be considerably old. And as DANI has rightly noted, suggest different environmental and climatic conditions than those obtaining today. The illustrations of the tools do not convey anything.