PREHISTORY

2. INTRODUCTION
TO
PREHISTORIC AGE
The term "prehistory" can refer to the vast span of
time since the beginning of the Universe, but more
often it refers to the period since life appeared
on Earth, or even more specifically to the time since
human-like beings appeared. In dividing up human
prehistory, historians typically use the three-age
system
•PALEAOLITHIC AGE
•MESOLITHIC AGE
•NEOLITHIC AGE

3. MESOLITHIC AGE
Second period in human history.
Based on the increase of technology of
microlith.
The new technology allowed for an increase in
leather work and basketry.
Tools were combined with others tools and
refined for hunting.
All this new technology allowed for the
domistication of plants and animal.

4. Mesolithic Era
The Mesolithic Era is the second era in
the triangle. They had new tools but
still used stone. They introduced bone
tools, bow and arrows, canoes and pets.

5. Mesolithic Era
CONT.
They are also known as the Homo
Erectus. Their name means “
upright Man”. They migrated to Asia
and Europe. They used advanced
tools like an ax. They also learned
to control fire.

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF
MESOLITHIC AGE
The start and end dates of the Mesolithic vary by
geographical region.It prevails that the term
generally covers the period between the end of
the Palaeolithic and the start of the Neolithic. The
times of these events vary greatly; moreover, the
various Mesolithic within the span might be as short
as roughly a thousand years or as long as roughly
15,000 years depending on the circumstances. If
the Mesolithic is more similar to the Paleolithic it is
called the Epipaleolithic.
The Paleolithic was an age of purely hunting and
gathering while in the Neolithic domestication of
plants and animals had occurred. Some Mesolithic
peoples continued with intensive hunting. Others
were practising the initial stages of domestication.
Some Mesolithic settlements were villages of huts.
Others were walled cities.

9. Mesolithic
Charactritics
•Formation of forests after melting of ice caps
•Started to depends on
r•iSvetarsrteddomestication of animals

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