The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c13.s3.t1.9

c13.s3.t1.9

The animal remains are being studied at present by Zeuner, but according to him, "though the identification of the species present still requires some time, it has become certain that game animals are conspicuous in the fauna". Some of them are: Indian rhinoceros (*Rhinoceros* Unicornis. L), Hog deer (*Hyelaphus porcinus Zimm.*), Indian buffalo (probably wild), Antelope (*Boselaphus tragocamelus Pall.*) and among the smaller ruminants Black Buck (*Antilope cervipra; Linn.*). Two skeletons of dog were also found (one near that of a man), but there is no definite evidence of domestication. Thus according to Zeuner, the predominance of the game fauna and the absence of domesticated animals remains so far, suggests that these microlithic people must have been mostly hunters.¹