Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s2.18

c6.s2.18

The interpretation of these resemblances and discrepancies between northern and central India is not easy. Nor is it facilitated by more recent observation in the Sabarmati valley.¹⁸ There, in the main gravel, it is noted by Dr. Sankalia that crude pebble-implements occur alongside more finished types which include Acheulian handaxes of latish appearance. There are also numerous flakes, though rarely with the faceted striking-platform suggestive, as might be expected from the northern evidence, of a Levalloisian technique. Typologically, this complex assemblage could be divided into a sequence of cultures beginning with pre-Abbevillian, but there is no stratigraphical warrant for this and it must be assumed that the various types were approximately contemporary.