Riwat

Riwat

Riwat (Rawat, Murree) is a Lower Paleolithic site in Punjab, northern Pakistan, providing evidence of "Homo" occupation that is among the earliest outside Africa, dating to 1.9 million years ago. The site was excavated in 1983.

References

*B. Bower, "Early Tool Making: An Asian Connection", Science News (1988).
*Rendell, H. and Dennell, R.W. 1987 "The dating of an upper pleistocene archaeological site at Riwat, northern Pakistan". Geoarchaeology 1, 6-12.
*Roy Larick and Russell L. Ciochon, "The African Emergence and Early Asian Dispersals of the Genus Homo", American Scientist (1996) [http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/hominid_journey/earlyasian/Larick-2.html]

ee also

*Early human migration
*South Asian Stone Age
*Soanian
*Oldowan


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