India
The first stone cultures in India
Lower Palaeolithic India is its own closing topic in the source pack — keep it off the Harappa page.
- This block sits at the end of the biological pack: earliest culture associated with early Homo grades.
- Raw material: mainly quartzite. North: Oldowan plus Acheulean mix in the notes; South: Acheulean heavier.
- Robert Bruce Foote: Pallavaram handaxe, Attirampakkam, Bellary as a huge Neolithic-tool complex, 450+ prehistoric sites across later ages too.
- Narmada valley early horizons; Singi Talav and Didwana (V.N. Misra); Adamgarh.
- Significance: the first durable tool tradition and regional styles — foundation of Indian prehistory, not a leftover paragraph.
| Site | Region | Hook |
|---|---|---|
| Pallavaram / Attirampakkam | Tamil Nadu | Foote; long Acheulean sequence |
| Didwana / Singi Talav | Rajasthan | Misra excavations |
| Adamgarh | Madhya Pradesh | Central Indian quartzite |
| Narmada | MP | Early horizons plus later fossils |
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