Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.30

c7.30

On the map, the concentrations of microlithic sites are in central and southern India, with extensions up the west coast to the lower Indus. The Punjab and the northern plains are almost blank, though whether this is significant or rather due to inadequate exploration or to the covering of appropriate sites by aggradation cannot be affirmed. A similar doubt arises from the seeming absence of microliths from north-east India—East Bengal, Orissa and Assam. But the negation receives support from the fact that south-east Asia as a whole has failed, so far, to produce any microlithic industry truly comparable with that of India south of the Vindhyas.