While further development of the Sohan Industry has been found in the Punjab, until recently nothing definite could be said about the fate of man in Peninsular India.

        Cores and flakes showing previous preparation occur in the deposits basal Potwar gravel and silt – of the Third Glacial Age.

        Handaxes have been found in Kangra valley in 1966-67. They belong to the lowest terrace, probably quite late in the Pleistocene.

In Peninsular India, deposits containing similar handwork of man are found resting on or against the older river deposits consisting of pebbly gravel conglomerate and silt.

         The tools found in the deposits are as a ruled, made of fine-grained material such as flint, jasper, agate and chalcedony, though in some areas like Kurnool and Madras quartzite also was employed. They are comparatively small. A normal assemblage consists of several kinds of scrapers, points, awls or borers, small choppers and chopping tools.

All these are generally made out of flakes or flake-like nodules which are flat on one or both sides. In some regions, such as Western Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, on the Rivers Luni and Betwa and its tributaries, there is a distinct improvement in the technique of making flakes. This is what is known as “the prepared core” or “faceted platform” technique, reminiscent of the famous Levallois method in France.

         Sine all over India such assemblages of tools are found in deposits assigned to the Middle Stone Age, it is conceivable that these tools were employed for fashioning larger tools and weapons such as spoke haves, arrows, lances, and bows of wood, none of which has survived being of perishable nature.

        The nature of the tools as well as the deposits in which these occur suggest a lightly wooded environment where rain was not very heavy and certainly less in intensity and duration than in the Early Stone Age.

Man lived along the foothills where raw material in the form of veins of chert, agate and flint was easily available. Some of the older mammalian fauna such as the Bos Namadicus and Elephas Antiquus seem to have survived, at least in Maharashtra where their remains have been found in

direct association with Middle Stone Age tools. In the absence of skeletal remains, it is difficult to say whether the same race of man continued to inhabit India during this period. Though he was still a hunter-fisher and a savage.

        Almost all over India and Pakistan the Middle Stone Age industries are followed by still smaller tools (microliths). there is nowhere a clear stratigraphical succession corresponding to a typological evolution. In a large number of cases, the microliths are found on the surface, in sandy or barren rocky surroundings.

        Instead of keeping the stone tools in the hand, man now hafted them in a bone, wooden or bamboo handle or shaft, and thus were born the prototypes of several kinds of later copper and iron sickles, arrows, harpoons, and drills. This device had its origin in the Middle Stone Age but reached its culmination in this period.

Now the tools were universally very small, sometimes barely an inch or a half inch long, and so could not be used otherwise.