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Lime •••• 205 



Slate, no true cleavage slate found 205 



Mineral clays and pigments 205 



No good Kaolin found 205 



Chapter XI— PREHISTORIC ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. 



Three stages of civilization traceable 206 



Palseolithic stage 206 



Neolithic stage .......... 206 



Early iron stage 207 



No traces of a Bronze or Copper stage 207 



Break in time between the Palseolithic and Neolithic stages . . 207 



Evidence in favour from the alluvium of the Sabarmati river . • 207 



Palseolithic implements in a talus fan south of Bellary • . . 208 



At Joga 208 



North of Kurikuppa . 208 



In high level shingle in the Tungabhadra alluvium .... 208 

 Absence of palaeolithic implements from prehistoric hill-sites near 



Bellary, one very doubtful one excepted 209 



Alleged Palseolithic settlement on Kapgal ...... 209 



Reasons for doubting it . . . • . • . • .210 



Tabular list of varieties of stone used by the prehistoric people . . 211 



Prehistoric pottery, its characters 212 



Appendix A. — List of quarries and localities where good varieties of granite 



can be obtained . . . • . .... 213 — 215 



Appendix B.— "Glaciers near Bellary," Surgeon-Captain Fox's hypothesis 



to explain its present topography ....... 216 



