The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c13.s1.3

c13.s1.3

It is well known that during the Pleistocene period, the era of man, there were series of fluctuations resulting in the alternation of cold and dry conditions. In the higher altitudes of the world, these changes manifested themselves in the occurrence of rivers of ice or glaciers during the cold periods, and the intervening dry periods were called Inter-glacial periods in contrast to the Glacial. In India, the Himalayas supported large Glaciers during that period. The Yale-Cambridge expedition continued the earlier work on the Himalayan glaciers by Indian and foreign geologists and they succeeded in correlating the human cultures with those of the Ice Age.