An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.131

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**Pallavaram** (12°55'; 80°11'), Dt Chingleput, where a palaeolith was found by Foote for the first time in India in 1863. In 1847, Boucher de Perthes first made what then was considered as a daring claim of having found flint tools of human fabrication in the old terrace deposits of the river Somme at Abbeville, in association with long extinct fauna. In 1859 the year when Darwin published his *Origin of Species*, three eminent English geologists—Prestwich, Evans and Falconer—confirmed the claim of Boucher de Perthes unqualifiedly before the Royal Society and in 1863 Lyell published his *Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man*.