Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s3.12

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A parallel series was identified by T. T. Paterson in and above the Red Hills near Madras, where four terrace surfaces were recognized.¹² Here a considerable layer of detrital or redeposited laterite overlay a well-developed Boulder Conglomerate; and the laterite was eroded to produce Terrace 1, on which were minor deposits of sand and gravel. This in turn was eroded to form Terrace 2, where thicker gravels were deposited and then covered by alluvium. Three groups of implements are associated with this sequence at a number of sites.