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AS Dr. de Terra and Mr. Paterson themselves have already summarized the main results of their investigations for the benefit of the readers of NATURE, it would be a work of supererogation to deal here with their report in its final form in detail. It will perhaps suffice to indicate its scope and distribution of topics. The report is in five parts, of which the first deals with the ice age in south-western Kashmir; the second covers conditions in north-west and peninsular India, so far as indicated by investigations in two main regions, the Soan basin and the Indus river; the third section deals with the Nerbada valley Pleistocene; Part iv is concerned with the stratigraphy and typology of Madras; and the fifth and final section is devoted to the late stone age sites of Sukkur and Rohri on the lower Indus, a proto-neolithic civilization, which it is held may suggest an indigenous evolution and not a foreign origin for Mohenjo-daro and the Indus civilization.
Studies on the Ice Age in India and Associated Human Cultures
H. do
Terra
T. T.
Paterson
By. (Publication No. 493.) Pp. xi+354+56 plates. (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1939.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 144, 738 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144738a0
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