The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c12.4

c12.4

For India, no such systematic work has been carried out. A beginning was made by the Yale-Cambridge expedition in Upper Punjab and Kashmir. This demonstrated the evidence of glacial and inter-glacial deposits and have correlated them with the human cultures. Paterson and Zeuner have attempted a provisional correlation of European and Indian glaciations and projected the relevant dates to them, at least as far as North-west India is concerned.² These correlations will have to be corroborated by other means and we look forward to greater attention to this problem. On the basis of this provisional chronology, we can say that the earliest man in the Sohan valley lived some time at the end of the II Glacial period or about 435,000 years according to Zeuner.