PALAEOLITHIC SITES IN INDIA

PALAEOLITHIC SITES IN INDIA The major Palaeolithic sites in India are as follows.

North A Palaeolithic hand-axe was discovered near Pahalgam in Kashmir on the Lidder river. The Sohan Valley (PW1jab), besides the banks of rivers Beas, Bangange and Sirsa, has also yielded Palaeolithic tools.
West Chittorgarh, Kota and Negarai (Rajasthan) have yielded Palaeolithic tools. The Wagoon and Kadamali river basins in Mewar are rich in Middle Palaeolithic sites. The rivers Sabarmati, Mahi and their tributaries, Bhader, Narbada have yielded many Palaeolithic artefacts. So have the rivers Tapti, Godavari, Bhima and Krishna. Chirki (near Nevasa), Koregaon, Chandoli and Shikarpur in Maharashtra have reported many Palaeolithic tools.

East The river Raro (Singhbhum, Jharkand) is rich in Palaeolithic tools. The Damodar and the Suvarnarekha valleysJn the state have also yielded Palaeolithic tools. In Orissa, some Palaeolithic tools have been fOW1d on the banks of the rivers, Baitarani, Brahmani and Mahanadi.

South Anagawadi and Bagalkot are two most impor­tant Palaeolithic sites on the Ghatprabha river basin in Karnataka. The rivers, Palar, Penniyar and Kaveri in Tamil Nadu are rich in Palaeolithic tools.

It, therefore, appears that Palaeolithic sites are fOW1d on many hilly slopes and in river valleys of the cOW1try, and are absent in the alluvial plains of the Indus and the Ganga.