The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c13.s2.1

c13.s2.1

This is, as yet, the least known of all the phases of Indian Stone Age. The basis of this new term has already been explained. It is being put forward as a hypothesis to explain an enigmatic group of stone industries, which do not fit in with the Early Stone Age or the equally distinctive Geometric and Non-geometric industries, widely distributed in time and space all over the sub-continent. Hence very vague term like "Proto-Neolithic" has been applied to them to show their distinctive character. But in a few localities there is some stratigraphic basis to show their intermediary position within the other well-known assemblages. This position was brought home by the discovery of a large group at Maheshvar and recently in a stratified [Figure: EARLY & MIDDLE STONE AGES GLACIATED TRACTS LATE CAINOZOIC (SIWALIK) EARLY STONE AGE SITES MIDDLE STONE AGE SITES