Explanation:

The carved and polished bone object found in the Belan valley, Uttar Pradesh, has been described as a 'mother goddess' (e.g. Misra 1977: 49). It is, however, not a female figurine, but a damaged bone harpoon of the early Upper Palaeolithic (Bednarik 1993b) (Fig. 8). Turning next to the claims for a Palaeolithic antiquity of rock art in India, we find that Wakankar's (1975Wakankar's ( , 1983 notion of the precedence of the green dynamic paintings, which he considered to be of the Upper Palaeolithic, has been negated by Tyagi (1988).