The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c11.16

c11.16

This need not surprise us, since the Upper Palaeolithic is "a phase of regional specialization".⁸ All over the Old World, the Lower Palaeolithic industries have a much greater affinity in technique and evolution, but not in the Upper. The cultures of these later phases in Europe, Africa, Palestine and even Iran show divergences. Similarly in India, it is possible, if not probable, that the Levallois flake industry slowly develops into a microlithic facies as in Africa. *Just at present, Indian sequence does not fit into any mould, European or African. Let us discover our own pattern by intensive stratigraphic studies of more localities, and rely less on typology.*