[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c10.s1.9 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s1.9 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s1.9 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c10.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.9) By the eustatic changes in the sea level and its relation to the \*teri\* sites \[9.5\] and by the correlation of the phase with the post-glacial climatic optimum of Europe Zeuner and Allchin have tentatively suggested about 4000 B.C. to be the date of the microlithic sites (Misra, 1965, pp. 69-70) ‘with the proviso that further geological research may push them back into the Pleistocene’ (Zeuner and Allchin, 1956, p. 8). The evidence from SANGANAKALLU and KUCHAI shows the microlithic industry to be pre-Neolithic and based on UTNUR dating the microlithic at the former sites was considered earlier than 2000 B.C. (Misra, 1965, p. 69). The cultural evidence from s. Rajasthan, where some 50 microlithic sites were located in the Banas basin, some of them in close proximity to the settlements of the Ahar culture \[4.14.1\], the absence of blade tools at AHAR², and ‘no evidence at all of the use of crested-guiding ridge technique at any of the microlithic sites’ shows that these microliths belonged to ‘Mesolithic hunter-food-gatherers who occupied the area before the establishment of early peasant settlements there’ (Misra, 1965, p. 70). - [Previous: v1.c10.s1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.8) - [Next: v1.c10.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.10) - [Up: v1.c10.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1) ## Linked texts (2) - [Sanganakallu](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.sanganakallu) - [Kuchai](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.kuchai) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.9) · Pramāṇa