Soanian

Soanian

The Soanian is an archaeological culture of the Lower Paleolithic (ca. 500,000 to 1250,000 BP) in South Asia, contemporary to the Acheulean. It is named after the Soan Valley in the Sivalik Hills, Pakistan. The bearers of this culture were "Homo erectus". On Adiyala and Khasala about 16 km (10 miles) from Rawalpindi terrace on the bend of the river hundreds of edged pebble tools were discovered. At Chauntra hand axes and cleavers were found.No human skeletons of this age have yet been found. In the Soan River Gorge many fossil bearing rocks are exposed on the surface. The 14 million year old fossils of gazelle, rhinoceros, crocodile, giraffe and rodents have been found there. Some of these fossils are in display at the Natural History Museum of Islamabad.

External links

* [http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue7/chauhan.html#dichotomy The Acheulian/Soanian dichotomy]

ee also

*Synoptic table of the principal old world prehistoric cultures
*South Asian Stone Age


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