The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t7.45

c14.s1.t7.45

This fact attains some significance if we look at Ceylon. From the published accounts of Weyland,⁵ Noone⁶ and Deraniyagala,⁷ no polished axes have been found and we learn that a Microlithic culture more or less survived into the Early Historic.⁸ The existence in Tamilnad of a microlithic culture of considerable antiquity is well-attested by the chain of Teri sites in the Tinnevelly District. Whether this culture, based on a primitive hunting economy, survived till it was displaced by the Megalithic folk requires investigation. But such a possibility is not ruled out by the evidence of Arikamedu and Sengamedu.