Upper Palaeolithic Period in India

• 40,000BC - 10,000BC  IN INDIA
•  many changes in the environment
• last phase of the Pleistocene
• climate became comparatively warm
• end of the ice age
• appearance of new flint industry
• lighter and smaller artifacts
• homo sapience was appeared in this time
• tools like blades, burins, srapers, harpoons,needles made of both quartzite and bones.

major sites:

• Riwat
• Sanghav caves
• Budha pushkar
• Rohri hill
• Belan valley and Son valley
• Chopani mando in Belan valley
• Visadi in Gujarat
• Shorapur and Bijapur in Karnataka
• Bhimbetka 

This time no clear evidences of religious belief, pottery, metal, cultivation and domestication in Indian scenario.