A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c8.6

c8.6

The Paleolithic Stage is generally divided into Early or Lower Paleolithic and Later or Upper Paleolithic. We cannot be sure if India had an Upper Paleolithic Stage. According to Movius its presence is suggested by the ‘evolved Sohan’; on the other hand the Microlithic industries of South India are not linked up with the Upper Paleolithic, and Seshadri derives them from a hypothetical Levalloisian flake industry and this excludes the Upper Paleolithic from the succession of the Stone Stage cultures of India. Further exploration and the study of the tēri industries of the south-east littoral and Bruce Foote's finds of the Kurnool caves may throw light on this question.