Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s1.26

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His setting lies within the Pleistocene epoch of geology—the last prior to the Recent or Holocene in which we live—as defined by the presence of a distinctive fauna: Elephas, Equus and Bos. More particularly, the stone implements encountered in this chapter may be equated with the Middle Pleistocene and a schematic time-bracket of 400,000 to 100,000 years ago, though the terminal date for some of the industries may well be later. Broadly, they fall into three main categories.