An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.213

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In 1959 Z.D. Ansari of the Deccan College discovered a fossil bone of *Elephas* sp. in a bouldery pebbly conglomerate exposed in the bed of the Ghod at Khadki (19°0'; 74°0') and a few Middle Palaeolithic [4.3] scrapers on chert in the modern bed at CHANDOLI (19°1'; 74°58'). These discoveries have been followed by intensive geo-archaeological and bio-archaeological researches in the valley since 1967, coinciding with the excavation of a Chalcolithic [4.14.6] site at INAMGAON on the same river. Middle and Upper Palaeolithic [4.4] tools made on cryptocrystalline silica have been discovered along with a large number of fossils of animals in the calcreted bouldery pebbly gravels exposed a few m above the modern bed of the Ghod at INAMGAON, SIRASGAON KANTA (18°37'; 74°28'), CHINCHNI (18°39'; 79°29') and ANNAPUR (18°50'; 74°18'), all in Dt Pune.