Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c8.101

c8.101

may represent a hang-over from the Indus or sub-Indus culture of the north-west coast; it is less remarkable than is their general absence from these microlithic sites, where their utility in the recurrent process of jungle-clearance must have been cardinal. It is a constant question how these communities, with their miserable microliths, coped with the luxuriant vegetation which certainly surrounded them, although their preference for sandy and relatively open spots such as Langhnāj is a partial explanation. In other parts of the world, microlithic communities have similarly sought a negative milieu.