The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c11.21

c11.21

The last phase of the Stone Age in India is characterized by the occurrence of polished stone axes. In the Central Deccan, we have more or less stratigraphic evidence to show that this succeeded the ‘Late Stone Age’. We have also clear evidence to show that these people were widespread agricultural and pastoral communities with a preference for upland or hilly type of terrain. This may be called the Neolithic or the New Stone Age. F. R. Allchin has made a nice attempt to justify the use of this term.³