[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) › v2.c34.213 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.213 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.213 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c34.213](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c34.213) 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. - [Previous: v2.c34.212](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c34.212) - [Next: v2.c34.214](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c34.214) - [Up: v2.c34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c34) ## Linked texts (2) - [Inamgaon](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.inamgaon) - [Khadki](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.khadki) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c34.213](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c34.213) · Pramāṇa