Riwat
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Coordinates: 33°30′N 73°12′E / 33.5, 73.2 Riwat (Rawat, Murree) is a Lower Paleolithic site in Punjab, northern Pakistan, providing evidence of Homo occupation that is among the earliest outside Africa, dating to 1.9 million years ago. The site was excavated in 1983.

References

• B. Bower, Early Tool Making: An Asian Connection, Science News (1988).
• Rendell, H. and Dennell, R.W. 1987 Thermoluminescence Dating of an Upper Pleistocene Site, Northern Pakistan. Geoarchaeology 2, 63-67.
• Roy Larick and Russell L. Ciochon, The African Emergence and Early Asian Dispersals of the Genus Homo, American Scientist (1996) [1]

See also

• Early human migration
• South Asian Stone Age
• Soanian
• Oldowan