The Acheulian Industry of Rock Shelter IIIF-23 at Bhimbetka, Central India - A Preliminary Study¹

Abstract

It is over a century and a decade ago that the first Acheulian implement - a cleaver - was found by Robert Bruce Foote in a lateritic gravel pit at Pallavaram near Madras During the following three decades Acheulian finds were made from many sites in peninsular India, mainly by Foote himself but also by some other amateur archaeologists.