Prehistoric era (Pre 3300 BCE)

South Asian Stone Age

The Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic eras of South Asia are collectively referred to as the South Asian Stone Age. The cave sites of Cudappah in India, Batadombalena, and Belilena in Sri Lanka have yielded evidence of the earliest Homo sapiens in South Asia.

The arrival of Homo sapiens on the Indian subcontinent. Over tens of millennia, anatomically modern people populated India in many waves of early migrations. The Coastal Migration/Southern Dispersal brought the first migrants. Approximately 65,000 years ago

The Soanian culture is a prehistoric technological civilization from the Indian subcontinent’s Siwalik Hills. It is named after Pakistan’s Soan Valley. Soanian sites can be found in modern-day India, Nepal, and Pakistan along the Siwalik region.

Paleolithic ruins can be found at Riwat in Punjab, Pakistan’s north.

The earliest site in Pakistan where traces of farming and herding can be found in Mehrgarh. Located in Pakistan’s Balochistan province in the Kacchi Plain. The current Pakistani city of Quetta, it is situated close to the Bolan Pass, to the west of the Indus River.

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