From before 30,000 B.C.E. and up to 10,000
B.C.E. Stone Age communities of hunters and gatherers lived on the Indian subcontinent. The earliest of these human communities are known
primarily from surface finds of stone tools.
Paleolithic peoples lived by hunting and gathering in the Soan River Valley, the Potwar plateau regions, and the Sanghao caves of northern Pakistan and in the open or in caves and rock shelters in Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. The artifacts found at the sites include stone pebble tools, hand
axes, a skull in the Narmada River Valley and several older rock paintings at Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh.
