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AN EARLY HISTORY OF ORISSA people. Sir John? argues that such a hiatus or gap did really occur in Western Europe. The existence of a similar gap in India is strongly supported by geological features, especially in Gujarat.
In the valley of the Sabarmati river, R. B. Foote' discovered typical palaeoliths deposited by flood action in a bed of coarse shingle over which more than 50 ft. of other alluvial materials were piled by the action of the river. And, over this again blown loess of about 200 ft. in thickness was heaped by the westerly winds from the Gulf of Cambay and the Rann of Cutch. On the top of the high level loess, which occurs in the shape of small plateaus at intervals, capping alluvial banks or on the top of isolated loess hills away from the river, the earliest remains of the neolithic people were discovered. Such a gap must have occured in the region under study, though no such evidense has come to light so far.
1. Sir John Evans-The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornamente of Great Britain, last pages.
2, Prehistoric & Protobistoric, Mad. Mus. Cat., p. 2.
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