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Riwat

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Geographical range
  
Pakistan

Dates
  
1,900,000 – 45,000 BP

Preceded by
  
Oldowan

Period
  
Lower Paleolithic

Type site
  
Rawat, Murree

Followed by
  
Acheulean, Soanian

Riwat

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Riwat (Rawat, Murree) is a Lower Paleolithic site in Punjab, northern Pakistan, providing evidence of Homo occupation that is the earliest outside Africa, dating to 1.9 million years ago. The site was discovered in 1983. The artifacts consist of flakes and cores made of quartzite. Another site, called Riwat Site 55, shows a later occupation dated to around 45,000 years ago.

References

Riwat Wikipedia