The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c7.2

c7.2

After apparently a great gap in time we come to the neolithic age, and, following it with no such gap, to the iron age. Bruce Foote, the geologist of Southern India, came to the conclusion that the people of the iron age were direct descendants of the neolithic folk. All these three are combined in the term ‘pre-historic’ civilizations.