Earliest Indian Human Remains found in a Late Stone Age Site

THE discovery of human remains from a Late Stone Age site in the village of Sarai Nahar Rai in Uttar Pradesh has provided the earliest available skeletal evidence of man in the Indian subcontinent. This northern Indian site, which is in the district of Pratapgarh, lies about 38 km north of Allahabad city and 33 km south-west of Pratapgarh town, connected by road. It covers about 2,700 m2(about lat. 25° 48′ north and long. 81° 50′ east) and is about 9 km west of Bishnathganj Railway Station on the Allahabad-Fyzabad line of the Northern Railway. It was discovered in 1968. The eastern sector of the site—about 600 m2—had been badly eroded and there was visible evidence of a cluster of human graves, the only such example to have been reported from the plain of the Ganga.