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The '''Sub-Himalayan Range''' (also known as the '''Cis-Himalaya''') is the southernmost mountains in the [[Himalayan range]], located on the [[Indian subcontinent]]. Their average height varies between 600 and 1200 meters, and are not so high in altitude as compared to other mountain ranges in the Himalaya range.<ref name="Theobald1881">{{cite book|author=William Theobald|title=The Siwalik group of the sub-Himalayan region|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XuhaAAAAQAAJ|year=1881}}</ref><ref name="India1879">{{cite book|author=Geological Survey of India|title=A Manual of the Geology of India: Extra-peninsular area, by H. B. Medlicott and W. T. Blanford. [n. d|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7TkAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA521|year=1879|publisher=Geological Survey Office|pages=521–}}</ref>

Himalayan foothills form the sub-Himalayan zone. Located from [[Punjab region]] to the [[Indian state]] of [[Assam]]. These hills are consist of a narrow belt of folded neogene molasse type sediments (siwaliks). Southward, the folded siwaliks sequence is covered by [[Indo-Gangetic Plain]] alluvium. An acute fault is "Himalayan front fault" cut the alluvium in foothill region, this fault is a series of en-echelon faults which are parallel to the strike of the hills between Punjab and Assam. Northward, this sequence is terminated by MBT, which is a set of north dipping faults and forms the boundary between ''Southern Himalayas'' and ''Lesser Himalayas''. [[Siwalik Hills]] and Sub‐Himalayan region is home to the [[Soanian]] archaeological culture.<ref name="SchugWalimbe2016">{{cite book|author1=Gwen Robbins Schug|author2=Subhash R. Walimbe|title=A Companion to South Asia in the Past|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7xv-CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39|date=13 April 2016|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-119-05547-1|pages=39–}} Quote: “Soanian and Soanian‐like assemblages are known throughout the entire Siwalik or Sub‐Himalayan region, from Pakistan to northeast India including Nepal...”</ref>

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