The ruins have been unearthed from the various places of the Uttarakhand especially from the rock shelter at Lakhu Udyar which form the testimonials of the civilization dating back to the Stone Age. The paintings that were discovered from this region certainly belong to the Mesolithic period.
The state of Uttarakhand includes the mighty Himalayas which till date serve as the refuge to the hermits in the form of caves and rock shelters. The geologists believe that the Himalayas bear "recent" origin, but nevertheless, they house fossil remains of late Miocene, Pliocene as well as early Pleistocene fauna and to add more to it, there are remnants of the earliest hominids like the Ramapithecus. This again points towards the men of the Stone Age in Uttarakhand.
There have been no paleontological or archaeological investigations in this area. So very little is known of the prehistoric Himalayas treasure. But evidences are there which are enough to prove that the Stone Age man use to live in this part of the world.
- In Uttarakhand the chief bulk of rock art has been detected in the region near the source of the Suyal, a tributary of river Koshi ling in the Almora district. There are at least 12 sites which house paintings or pale pigment tinges on the rocks. While in the remaining sites, the art of rock is seen in the form of engravings
- arrangements of dots
- cup-marks
The figures depicted in the paintings of the Stone Age of Uttarakhand are micropgraphic. They are usually painted in light red, brick red, crimson, white or blackish-green. The animals like ox, goat and fox are frequently found..
The Stone Age at Uttarakhand are also depicted by the inscriptions in the Gupta Brahmi and Sankha scripts.
