South Asia in the prehistory (before 3500 BC). Before writing, the record is stone, bone and DNA. These articles cover human origins, the ice ages and the first farmers, up to the moment cities and script appear.
Nature, February 1, 2018: luminescence dated the end of the Acheulian at Attirampakkam, near Chennai, to 385 ± 64 ka; a Middle Paleolithic ran to 172 ka.
· 385,000 BCA calvaria found at Hathnora on the Narmada in 1982 was named Homo erectus narmadensis, called Homo sapiens in 1991 and dated by ESR in 2009.
· 160,000 BCAt Jwalapuram in Andhra Pradesh, Middle Paleolithic tools lie under and over the 74,000-year Toba ash. Papers from 2007 to 2025 argue what the eruption did
· 72,000 BCScience Advances, June 12, 2020: 130 bone points at Fa-Hien Lena cave, Sri Lanka, are sized and hafted like arrows, dated to 48,000 to 34,000 years ago.
· 46,000 BCSandstone shelters near Bhopal hold paintings from the Mesolithic to historic times, ordered by overlap, style and weathering; the paint itself is undated.
· 8000 BCMehrgarh, Pakistan: the oldest known lost-wax casting, molars drilled 7,500 to 9,000 years ago and cotton thread in a copper bead, before the Indus cities.
· 7000 BC
