An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c20.s1.t3.2

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(a) Indo-Ganga localities: A few palaeontological reports occur in the Indo-Ganga alluvium which comprises sands and lenticules of gravels, silts and clays with scattered organic matter. The vertebrate fossils found in the Older Alluvium have affinity with those found in Narmada (Falconer, 1865), whereas those from the younger layers resemble the recent ones. Some earlier works are those of Chakravarty (1931, 1935, 1938) who reported the occurrence of *Stegodon insignis*, *Palaeoloxodon namadicus* and some other prehistoric elephants from the Upper Pleistocene of the Ganga alluvium around Varanasi and Allahabad. In 1964 a complete skull of *Elephas antiquus* was excavated from the Older Alluvium near Gurgaon in Haryana (Khan, 1968). [If this refers to the find from AUTHA, it has been shown that it belongs to the early historical period.]