The Soanian is an archaeological culture of the Lower Paleolithic in the Sivalik Hills of Pakistan.[1][4] Contemporary to the Acheulean, it is named after the Soan Valley in Pakistan.[5] Later Soanian sites are found along the Sivalik region from Pakistan to India, and Nepal.[6] Soanian artifacts were manufactured on quartzite pebbles, cobbles, and occasionally on boulders, all derived from various fluvial sources on the Siwalik landscape. Soanian assemblages generally comprise varieties of choppers, discoids, scrapers, cores, and numerous flake types, all occurring in varying typotechnological frequencies at individual sites.[7] Excluding some localities in the Soan Valley of Pakistan, the site complex of Guler (Beas Valley) and Toka in India, and the Arjun-3 site in Nepal, Soanian and similar assemblages rarely comprise more than a few dozen artifacts. Most occur in nondatable surface contexts and may be classifiable as off-sites or non-sites, with stray artifacts strewn randomly across Siwalik landscapes.[8][9][10] The closest morphological parallels to this outside of South Asia are found in the neighboring regions of Tajikistan and Iran.[11]