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amitrajora
September 26th, 2003, 12:22 PM
Here is an extract from the newly opened site of U P archaeology department.Knowledgeable members may kindly comment and enlighten the rest of us:

"Evidence of Prehistoric human activity in YAMUNA Valley is 45000 yrs. old.
A variety of faunal remains, namely elephant tusk, shoulder blade of elephant, molars of Equus, Bovids, Bos etc, small pebble tools, stone flakes and chips as well as a good number of bone tools with evidence of partial burning, cut marks amply testify to human activity in the Kalpi area for the first time.
Prof. I.B. Singh of the Geology Department of Lucknow University and his team made a discovery of a sizable vertebrate fauna, stone and bone implements in definite stratigraphic horizon in the Kalpi section on river Yamuna. They had been working in his area to reconstruct the depositional processes, palaeoenvironment, palaeoclimate and chronology.
In view of the typological and chronological considerations the stone and bone industries at Kalpi have been placed in the Middle Paleolithic period.By using the Infrared Stimulated Luminescence (IRSL) technique the artifact yielding horizon has been dated to 45,000 years before the present.
This is a very important discovery because previously it was believed that the Ganga Valley was unsuited for Prehistoric Man. Sporadic occurrence of fossils although had been reported earlier but this scientific research with definitive dating has opened a new chapter in the archaeology of the Ganga-Yamuna Plains. "