Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s1.25

c6.s1.25

In India it is more than ordinarily difficult to set Man of the Old Stone Age, Palaeolithic Man, squarely upon his feet. That he abounded for a great many thousands of years is sufficiently evident from the unnumbered lumps of stone which he split and shaped and left for us in a variety of geological environments. But of the bones and branches which he may also have hewn in the fulfilment of his daily needs, practical or spiritual, of the skins and matting which may have adorned his person and his precinct, nothing has survived. Of his physical aspect we know nothing. His solitary memorial is an infinitude of stones.