Archaeology through space: Experience in indian subcontinent

The emergence of our own species remains one of the most elusive problems in palaeo anthropology. According to Arch Bishop Usshers' chronology man was created in 4004 B. C. on March 23rd. The total age of man and also of the earth was just about a few thousand years as per the story of Adam and Eve according to western theory. In the east, the people, particularly Hindus, believed that man existed on the earth since countless ages. Man has lived on this planet for more than a million years (perhaps even much longer) and yet this fact was not known to us till just about a hundred and fifty years from now. Prehistoric man lived mostly on the banks of the rivers so that he could easily avail of one of the necessities of life, the water. At the time of the floods he left the riverside, but in the process of leaving he left behind inadvertently his belongings and imperishable stone implements. Gradually as the water receded these implements got stuck or embedded in the clay. As this process was repeated again and again, a variety of stone tools made by prehistoric man were left behind in the terraces of riverbeds. It is they that provide clues to his antiquity.