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The finest evidence for this industry is provided by the sections at Khandivli studied by Todd¹ (Fig. 16). Now, we can understand his sections in the light of recent work by Prof. Zeuner and by comparing them with those of Gujarat and Maharashtra. As already stated, there were two series of aggradations with a break. At Khandivli, we have more or less a similar situation. The lower clay, "bluish brown" in colour, seems to correspond to the "Mottled clay" of similar colour noticed in all the river systems of Western India. Then the lower gravel and the Middle clay constitute one aggradational deposit starting with a coarse gravel. Archaeologically, it is of the same age as in Gujarat and Maharashtra. This is succeeded again by an Upper Gravel and Upper clay in the eastern sections, while in the southern section, we have a "laterisation" of the top of the lower gravel with rubble underlying the "Red earth". As pointed out by Zeuner, the wind activity becomes less as we go south and eastwards from the Sabarmati valley—(note the difference between Sabarmati and Mahi—for example)—This would account for the absence of this evidence in Khandivli.