Early Acheulian in India

Posted Date: 24-09-2017

Our excavations at the site of Attirampakkam, established that the earliest Lower Palaeolithic Acheulian occupation ranged from around 1 to 1.7 Million years ago. Here, you can see one of their tools-the handaxe-lying deeply buried in clays. 

Read more about this in our paper i n Science, March 2011.