Pushkar: Prehistory and climatic change in Western India

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Abstract
Pushkar, near Ajmer, Rajasthan, lies in the dry zone to the east of the Indian desert. In the vicinity there is evidence for three arid phases, during the latter part of the Pleistocene, each represented by a major sand sheet and fossil desert dunes. The earliest contains lenses of detritus which include rolled Lower Palaeolithic tools. The penultimate and the last are separated by a mature soil, representing a period of considerably greater humidity than the present, upon which are both Middle and Upper Palaeolithic working floors. On the surface of the last sand sheet are Mesolithic working floors and later sites. Comparable geomorphic and archaeological evidence is found widely distributed in the dry zone to the north and south.