Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78)

Abstract

Recent geo-archaeological investigations in parts of Kashmir valley and Himachal Pradesh show that there is no positive evidence for the existence of early mall prior to Middle Pleistocene. The Stone age tools found in the area are dominated by choppers of Indian Lower Palaeolithic tradition.

The climate was warmer in the early Pleistocene than in the late Pleistocene. There is no convincing evidence of lowering of snow line below 2500m during the whole of the Pleistocene.

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