Editing Microlith (section)

===India===
Early research regard the microlithic industry in India as a Holocene phenomenon, however a new research provides solid data to put the South Asia microliths industry up to 45 ka across whole South Asia subcontinent. This new research also synthesizes the data from genetic, paleoenvironmental and archaeological research, and proposes that the emergence of microlith in India subcontinent could reflect the increase of population and adaptation of environmental deterioration.<ref>{{cite journal | author=Petraglia| year=2009 | title=Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago| journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences| volume=106 | number=30 | pages=12261–12266 | doi=10.1073/pnas.0810842106|display-authors=etal | pmid=19620737 | pmc=2718386| bibcode=2009PNAS..10612261P | url=http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2243596/component/escidoc:2246725/shh291.pdf| doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Malik 1966 p=162">{{cite journal | last=Malik | first=S. C. | title=The Late Stone Age Industries from Excavated Sites in Gujarat, India | journal=Artibus Asiae | publisher= | volume=28 | issue=2/3 | year=1966 | pages=162–174 | doi=10.2307/3249352 | jstor=3249352 }}</ref><ref name="Wedage 2019"></ref>