THE STONE AGE – EARLY MAN
· Earliest phase of human history is known as the stone age because THE EARLIEST MAN USED ONLY tools made of stone thus
· The evolution of the earth’s crust shows four stages the four stage is called quaternary
· Which has parts Pleistocene and Holocene
· Man was first appeared in
· We find human presence in
· There are three parts of stone age
PALEOLITHIC AGE
· Paleolithic man in
· Paleolithic culture of
· In
· Paleolithic tools of 100000 BC have been found in
· The other Paleolithic sites are found in soan valley belan valley These are in
· The most important site where cave and rocks shelter used by Paleolithic man are found binmbetka near
· The Paleolithic tools of stone age are hand axe, cleavers, choppers, scrapers,
· They lived on hunting and food gathering.
· He had no knowledge of cultivation. However he knew the use of fire
MESOLITHIC AGE
· IN 9000 BC intermediate stage in the stone age culture, Mesolithic age began
· Mesolithic man lived on hunting, fish & food gathering and at later stages also domesticated animals
· Characteristics tools of Mesolithic age are microliths
· Adamgarh in M.P and bagor in the Rajasthan – earliest evidence of domestication of animal
· Bhimbetka is fine example of pre historic art. Rock painting existing from Paleolithic Mesolithic period
