Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.20

c7.20

In this series, both the Lower and the Middle Clays may represent periods of pluviation, whilst the gravels may indicate phases of a semi-arid character,[*] but to equate the pluviations with the standard glaciations is, in the present state of knowledge, mere guesswork. At a venture, the Lower Clay might be matched with the penultimate glaciation, and, if so, is congenially associated with its pre-Soan Abbevillian industries whilst the Middle Clay may correspond to the last glaciation, which would thus be brought into a familiar terminal relationship with a blade, burin and scraper industry of a roughly Upper Palaeolithic facies. Beyond that oracular statement, even guesswork falters.