[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.c40.56 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.56 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.56 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c40.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.56) Sites numbering more than 130 were spread over an area of 23 sq km inside the valley, closed on all sides by the hills of the Nallamalai Range. These sites may broadly be divided into seven Pds: Pd I, Lower Palaeolithic \[4.2\]; Pd II, Middle Palaeolithic \[4.3\]; Pd III, Mesolithic \[4.5\]; Pd IV, Neolithic \[4.6.8\]; Pd V, Megalithic \[4.17.7\]; Pd VI, early historical \[4.18.10\]; and Pd VII, medieval. Though Lower Palaeolithic tools could be picked up from any part of the valley, it was Site 129 that exposed an advanced Acheulian industry in a stratigraphical context since tools in good state of preservation were found overlying the pebble bed resting on a fossil river-bank. The pebble bed was followed by a thick talus deposit of shingles over which was discovered a Middle Palaeolithic assemblage dominated by blade flakes made mostly on quartzite. - [Previous: v2.c40.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.55) - [Next: v2.c40.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.57) - [Up: v2.c40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.56) · Pramāṇa