An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s1.3

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In the study and dating of the Stone Age cultures of India the primary basis and method have been ‘to relate the remains of early man to the succession of events in the geological record’ (Allchin and Allchin, 1968, p. 56). Thus while typological classification of the material helped in arriving at a sequence of development of Stone Age material, it became possible to place it within some chronological parameters on the basis of a study of the material *inter alia* the geological sequence.