Remnants of Microlithic man have been discovered here. These painted rock shelters belong to the Mesolithic age of microlithic implements culture. The cave has some of the earliest evidence in the world for microlithic tool technologies. There have been traces of cultures&colon; Microlithic, Neolithic, Iron Age, Maurya and Chalukya-Hoysala. From about 10,000 years ago, humans made still smaller tools called Microlithic tools. The Natufian had a microlithic industry centered on short blades and bladelets. Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. Lavas erupted before the caldera-forming eruption of Sairecabur contain glass and have a microlithic texture. This represents the microlithic complexes of the Lower Paleolithic period. Shreds of crude hand-made pottery indicate that the microlithic people were hunters and food-gatherers.