Archaeology & Prehistory
Soanian pebble-tool industry
Lower PalaeolithicPalaeolithic homininsSiwalik / Soan valley findsIndus region (India/Pakistan)
1.5 million years ago
A chopper/chopping-tool tradition of the sub-Himalayan Siwalik zone.
- Dated
- 1.5 million–300,000 years ago
- As scholars put it
- Lower Palaeolithic
- Originator
- Palaeolithic hominins
- Source text
- Siwalik / Soan valley finds
- Region
- Indus region (India/Pakistan)
- Discipline
- Archaeology & Prehistory
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Parallels other Old-World pebble-tool industries.
Fair to say
Dating and relationship to Acheulean traditions are debated.
Path to modern innovation
Part of the record of earliest tool-using humans in the subcontinent.
Transmission
Regional Stone Age tradition.
References
- 1Standard Palaeolithic surveys of India
Further reading
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