A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c8.9

c8.9

Foote observed that the Tinnevelly Microliths lay embedded in the fossil sand-dunes (tēris) and were stained red by their long contact with the ferruginous soil; in 1949 Zeuner found Microliths near Tuticorin in a geological section which suggests that some of them may be of considerable antiquity. These facts and similar evidence from Nandi Kanama and Khandivli have led to the supposition that the first appearance of Microliths may be placed some time between 8000 and 6000 B.C.