Contents: Preface. I. Identity of prehistoric rockshelters: 1. The rockshelter painter of Indian sub-continent. 2. Scientific concept of early man. 3. Earliest forms of man in India. 4. Continental migrations. 5. Earliest rock painters. 6. Stone age cultures and the rock art. 7. Racial identity of rock artists. 8. Earliest human communities. 9. Earliest Australian aborigines and the tradition of rock art. 10. Earliest relatives of Indian rockshelter painters. 11. Successors of Indian rockshelter painters. II. Geography of Indian rockshelters: 12. Contributions to the studies of rockshelter paintings. 13. Regionalization of Indian rockshelters. 14. Characteristics of Indian rockshelters. 15. Son valley rockshelter paintings. 16. Rock art of the world. 17. Rockshelter regions of India. Bibliography. Index.

"Early man of the Indian rock-shelters is an attempt to search for the antiquity of Indian rockshelter paintings. This attempt is based on the global scientific researches which reveal the essential unity of pre-historic stone age culture throughout the old world. The book discusses the pre-historic human migrations and their relationship with the rock art. Based on the palaeontological facts, the present study establishes the period of some of the Indian rockshelter paintings few millennium older than what they are generally being thought to be." (jacket)