Soanian culture is a prehistoric technological culture from the Siwalik Hills in the Indian subcontinent.
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12 Facts About Soanian
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The Soanian culture has been approximated to have taken place during the Middle Pleistocene period or the mid-Holocene period.
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Soanian artifacts were manufactured on quartzite pebbles, cobbles, and occasionally on boulders, all derived from various fluvial sourceson the Siwalik landscape.
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The emergence of Soanian tools has been tied to the local development of boulder conglomerate formation through prehistoric tectonic processes that created convenient transporting system for raw materials.
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Prehistoric dating of Soanian culture is one that has been debated by scholars due to artefacts being often found in undatable surface contexts.
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Scholars of this view suggest Soanian technology did not evolve in three intervals, but rather all belong to one distinct period in early homo sapien history during the mid-Holocene period.
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Scholars of the single interval period argue Soanian tools are developed due to the movement of the Harappan culture.
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Understandings for the technological development of Soanian tools have been limited due to most sites rarely comprising more than a few dozen artefacts.
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The technologies of Soanian culture are stone based and are often described as non-bifacial assemblages.
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The comparison between other culture of the same region has seen Soanian technology categorized as a continuation of archaic technology rather than Neolithic.
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