Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s8.6

c8.s8.6

The site is situated on one of the middle terraces of the Damodar river. Over the basal decayed sandstone is a thick layer of mottled silty sand, believed to be weathering *in situ* of the underlying rock. The latter—sandy silt is capped by lateritic gravel and stone fragments in a silty matrix which became consolidated. The top of this layer is uneven. It probably formed the land surface over which the microlithic man lived. For the microliths were mainly found at this level and in the over lying earth mixed with quartz and haematite. This layer in its turn is covered by sandy light brown earth.