Antiquity of the Narmada Homo erectus, the early man of India
The fossilized skull of Narmada Homo erectus was found embedded in a conglomerate bed in the Narmada valley of central India. This bed occurs at the basal part of a formation sandwiched between two other formations of 0.73 Ma and 74000 yrs BP. The conglomerate bed has also preserved fossils of Hipopotamus namadicus, etc having Middle Pleistocene affinity.