[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.c19.s1.11 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s1.11 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s1.11 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s1.11) During the Mesolithic period starting at the beginning of the Holocene \[9.8.4\] a phenomenal expansion of human population appears to have taken place. This increased population filled in every ecological niche in the previously colonized geographical regions. In w. Rajasthan and Gujarat almost every sand-dune bears evidence of human occupation. On the Gujarat plain such dunes usually enclosed a depression which carried water for the greater part of the year, and therefore hunting-gathering communities here may have been more sedentary than in w. Rajasthan where Mesolithic occupation also occurs on dunes away from any permanent water sources. - [Previous: v1.c19.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s1.10) - [Next: v1.c19.s1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s1.12) - [Up: v1.c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s1.11) · Pramāṇa