This book tells the story of both the ancient humans who made handaxes and the thoughts
and ideas of scholars who have spent their lives trying to understand them. Beginning with …

Rivers and river-borne deposits have always been a major attraction for hominins as an
important source of sustenance and settlements. Hence, fluvial deposits have long been an …

2 Puratattva 52, 2022 preserved in a variety of fluvial sedimentary situations. The Indian
Siwalik is well known for its remains of fossil primates. The fossil remains of anthropoid apes …

The Indian Siwalik Hills are globally significant due to their diverse eco-geographic regions
full of fossiliferous and implementiferous localities. Although there have been sporadic …

The formal beginning of geoarchaeology in India can be traced back to 1863 when the first
palaeolith was documented and collected by Robert Bruce Foote in Tamil Nadu and later …

Paleolithic evidence of the Indian subcontinent is often expressed through the wealth of lithic
antiquities from the Stone Age. In this region, the earliest known lithic remains comprise …

The Soanian is a post-Acheulean archaeological adaptation in the Siwalik region of the
Indian subcontinent. It was named after the Soan valley in Pakistan by H. de Terra and TT …