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Table of Content

(The Lower Palaeolithic or Formative Era of Hunting-Gathering)

Foreword V. Nagaraj . . . . .ix

Preface A. Sundara . . . . . . .xi

A Note by the Authors . . . .xix

List of Illustrations . . . . . . xxi

I. Introduction . . . . . 1

Birth of Prehistory – Man’s Place in Biological Evolution – Earliest Cultural Traces

II. South Asia . . . . . 11

Geographical Background- Beginnings of Prehistoric Research and Changing Perspectives – Palaeoclimatic and Palaeoenvironmental Background – Nature of Palaeolithic Archaeological Record – Partitioning the Prehistoric Past – Chronology

III.Principal Aspects of the Lower Palaeolithic . . . . . 61

The Soanian Tradition – The Acheulian Tradition: Major Excavated Sites; Evolutionary Stages within the Acheulian; Diversity in Unity; Intra- regional Organizational Variability; Aspects of Non-Utilitarian Behaviour

IV. Conclusions . . . . . 132

V. Glossary . . . . . . 139

VI. Index . . . . . .143