HOMO ERECTUS ON UNIFIED QUATERNARY PLATFORM OF INDIA AND CHINA

The Narmada Rift valley is conspicuous ENE-WSW to E-W trending prominent composite structural system across Indian sub-continent. It consists of various blocks which are dislocated and faulted along various faults and lineaments in space and time. The Narmada Rift System consists of various sub- basins like Hiran, Sher Shakkar, Dudhi, Tawa, which are minor basins are integratedandin built part of main rift System. These sub basins possess imprints of rinsing sinking and rifting events. These imprints are recorded in terms of manifestation and signature on landscape, drainage, of land form elements, present and paleo- meandering signature, river terraces, cut of meanders, paleo channels, scars, rock cut terraces, entrenchment and linear and curvilinear scars. These sub basins have developed transverse to the main axis of Narmada rifting and had deep cut across the quaternary blanket.The evolution of Narmada graben is differential and asymmetrical with rinsing and sinking valley floor. The Narmada basin contains fossiliferous Pliocene-Pleistocene volcanic fabrics sediments and volcanic rocks which were occupied by early hominid populations.