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two authentic instances in India have palaeoliths been discovered 
in direct association with the fossil bones of extinct animals 
—namely, in the cases of Wynne’s Mungi flake and Haeckett’s 
Bhuttra boucher, discovered one in the ossiferous gravels of 
the Godavari Valley in 1861, and the other in similar gravels of 
the Narmada Valley in 1873. There are, however, good reasons 
to expect that systematic search for and regular stratigraphical 
study of the skeletal and industrial remains of prehistoric 
man in India may yield most important results towards the 
elucidation of the Pre-history of man, from the Late and Early 
[ron Ages through the Copper Age and New Stone Age back 
to the Palaeolithic and Perhaps Pre-Palaeolithic times. For 
the present, A. C Logan’s ‘“ Old Chipped Stones of India” 
(1908), Bruce-Foote’s “Indian Pre-historic and Proto-historic 
Antiquities’ (1914-16), Coggin-Brown’s ‘‘ Catalogue of Pre- 
historic Antiquities in the Indian Museum” (1917) besides a 
few articles in the Records of the Geological Survey of India, 
and in the journals of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and of the 
Bihar and Orissa Research Society, and in one or two other 
journals constitute about all the meagre Indian literature on 
the subject. 
As for the artistic remains of Prehistoric man in India, a 
few rude paintings generally of animals or hunting scenes or 
symbolic drawings on the walls of certain cave-shelters in the 
Mirzapur District in the United Provinces, at Singanpur in the 
Raigarh State of the Central Provinces and at Edakkal in the 
Bellary District (Madras) are about the only specimens hitherto 
known. And even of these their antiquity has not yet been 
sufficiently investigated. And the same is the case with Indian 
india. Thus, then, we necessarily lack adequate materials 
for investigation into the origin, variety and characteristics of 
yet begun. In fact, much fuller accounts of the history and 
traditions and physical and cultural, including psychological, 
ossess of each individual caste 
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