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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