The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, a small, landlocked country north of Indian Peninsula, had surprisingly never yielded any definite evidence of prehistoric cultures, though its large southern neighbour, India, has a long prehistoric heritage – from Early Palaeolithic handaxe cultures in the Middle Pleistocene to Chalcolithic settlements in the Late Holocene. At least the Terai plains at the foot of the Himalayas and the lower hilly regions of the Siwalik ...
