Soanian cores and core-tools from Toka, Northern India: Towards a new typo-technological organization

Chauhan, Parth R.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2007.01.001

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“…Indeed, even de Terra himself utilized this study as a standard reference to explain his perceptions of Indian Stone Age cultures (Bain, 2020). Additionally, this British-American group constructed the cultural labels to designate the lithic remains of this region (Hawkes et al, 1934;Movius, 1948;Soni and Soni, 2017) and extensively set their inception in the Middle Pleistocene (Dennell and Hurcombe, 1993;Chauhan, 2007). Before the Yale-Cambridge expedition, proof of the existence of early people in the western sub-Himalayas was given by Wadia (1928).…”

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Understanding Soanian occurrences at Bam locality of Siwalik frontal range, north-western India

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Bezbaruah

2021

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Paleolithic evidence of the Indian subcontinent is often expressed through the wealth of lithic antiquities from the Stone Age. In this region, the earliest known lithic remains comprise simple cores and flakes recovered from the Siwalik Hills. The Siwalik Hills are the foothills of the southern edge of the Himalayas, and area goldmine zone for Soanian lithic implements. Although Acheulean remains have also been reported, their occurrences are few. Nevertheless, these remains have been known date from the Pleistocene, which shows varied patterns of land use and intraregional versatility. In the Siwalik Hills, Soanian implements are of two kinds: (i) a chopper type of the Lower Paleolithic period and (ii) a flake type belonging to the Middle Paleolithic period. The present study was undertaken at a newly discovered Stone Age locality, Bam, located within the frontal range of the Siwalik Hills in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, India. The area under study plays an important role in understanding the relationship between people and land. The paper explores the Soanian cultural remains of the site to obtain an in-depth understanding of its nature against the backdrop of raw material availability and exploitation. The study also throws light on the local geological and geomorphological settings of the area.

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Understanding Soanian occurrences at Bam locality of Siwalik frontal range, north-western India

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2021

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“…However, as may be noticed, barring few sites, most of the Palaeolithic find-spots in Himalayan region are surface finds (cf. Chauhan 2007). However, the monumental work of Corvinus (2007) Admittedly, language is the most articulated symbolism in human culture, but Mode 3 artefacts mentioned in Table 1 above cannot be cited in the context of symbolic behaviour.…”

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Cognitive archaeology: in search of the earliest syntactic language-users in Himalaya

Joshi

2019

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Recent scientific studies unfold that neural structures bearing on intonation of speech have a deep evolutionary history traced to mammal-like reptiles called therapsids found in the Triassic period (∼252.17 mya, million years ago). Therefore, these structures were already present in the primates. It goes to the credit of Homo sapiens who developed it to the extent that humans are defined as symbolling animals, for language is the most articulated symbolism. Cognitive archaeology makes it clear that it took hominins millions of years to develop a syntactic language. Stratigraphically controlled and securely established artefact-bearing sites of the Middle Palaeolithic Arjun complex in the Deokhuri Valley, West Nepal, provide firm dates for the presence of the earliest syntactic language speakers in Himalaya from 100 ka to 70 ka (thousand years ago).

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“…She and Dennell (Rendell et al 1989;Dennell and Rendell, 1991) thus concluded that the Soanian in Pakistan had no validity. In India, flake assemblages attributed to the Soanian are likely late Middle Pleistocene in age, as at Toka (Chauhan, 2007), and probably part of the Middle Palaeolithic.…”

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Life without the Movius Line: The structure of the East and Southeast Asian Early Palaeolithic

Dennell

2016

Quaternary International

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The starting point of this paper is that the Movius Line is no longer an appropriate way of studying the Early Palaeolithic of East and Southeast Asia, and should be disregarded. Instead, it is argued that the Early Palaeolithic of East and Southeast Asia needs to be seen as comparable to that in the rest of Eurasia, rather than the product of an isolated backwater. Contra Movius, East Asia was not isolated throughout the entire Early and Middle Pleistocene, but open to immigration during interglacials, as is indicated by its fossil hominin record. As in Europe and Southwest Asia, both bifacial and non-biface assemblages are present in China and Korea, thus indicating the presence of an Acheulean component, although the lack of agreement over how the Acheulean should be defined creates difficulties in establishing its extent in Southeast Asia. Regarding non-biface assemblages, Zhoukoudian was an unfortunate choice of an East Asian site that lacked bifaces, as bifaces are also rare or absent in a number of caves in Southwest Asia and Europe. Additionally, the absence of bifaces in some sites is not convincingly demonstrated because of the small size of the lithic assemblage. Finally, the simple flake industries in Southeast Asia are likely contemporary with Upper Pleistocene, Middle Palaeolithic and microlithic assemblages in India rather than with Middle Pleistocene, Acheulean assemblages, as proposed by Movius. Quaternary InternationalWe the undersigned declare that this manuscript is original, has not been published before and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.We confirm that the manuscript has been read and approved by all named authors and that there are no other persons who satisfied the criteria for authorship but are not listed. We further confirm that the order of authors listed in the manuscript has been approved by all of us.We understand that the Corresponding Author is the sole contact for the Editorial process. He/she is responsible for communicating with the other authors about progress, submissions of revisions and final approval of proofs.Signed by all authors as follows: AbstractThe starting point of this paper is that the Movius Line is no longer an appropriate way of studying the Early Palaeolithic of East and Southeast Asia, and should be disregarded.

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Soanian cores and core-tools from Toka, Northern India: Towards a new typo-technological organization

Cited by 36 publications

References 29 publications

Understanding Soanian occurrences at Bam locality of Siwalik frontal range, north-western India

Understanding Soanian occurrences at Bam locality of Siwalik frontal range, north-western India

Cognitive archaeology: in search of the earliest syntactic language-users in Himalaya

Life without the Movius Line: The structure of the East and Southeast Asian Early Palaeolithic

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