Soanian culture

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Soanian culture is a prehistoric stone tool tradition of the Indian subcontinent, associated with early human settlements in the Soan Valley and surrounding Himalayan foothills.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Paleolithic culture
archaeological culture
prehistoric stone tool tradition
associatedWith early humans
hominins
chronologicalPeriod Lower Paleolithic
Pleistocene NERFINISHED
comparedWith Acheulean culture NERFINISHED
Oldowan industry NERFINISHED
culturalContext South Asian prehistory
discoveredBy Helmut de Terra NERFINISHED
T. T. Paterson NERFINISHED
discoveryCentury 20th century
environment Siwalik foothills NERFINISHED
fluvial terraces
evidenceType stratified deposits
surface finds
hasArchaeologicalSite Rawalpindi region sites
Siwalik Hills sites NERFINISHED
Soan Valley sites NERFINISHED
hasDebate chronological placement
relationship to Acheulean
hasUncertainty cultural attribution of some assemblages
exact dating
locatedIn Himalayan foothills NERFINISHED
Indian subcontinent NERFINISHED
Pakistan
Pothohar Plateau NERFINISHED
Punjab region NERFINISHED
Soan Valley NERFINISHED
namedAfter Soan River NERFINISHED
partOf Paleolithic cultures of the Indian subcontinent
rawMaterial other local river cobbles
quartzite
sandstone
regionType river valley culture
studiedInDiscipline paleoanthropology
prehistoric archaeology
toolManufacturingTechnique bifacial flaking
direct hard-hammer percussion
unifacial flaking
toolTechnology core-and-flake industry
pebble tool industry
typicalArtifact chopper
chopping tool
flake tool
scraper

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Soan Valley hasArchaeologicalCulture Soanian culture