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1. STONE
AGE
MOHAMMED RISHAD CT
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2. The stone age was the period during which stone was the most
widely used material for making tools and weapons

3. THE PALAEOLITHIC AGE – OLD STONE AGE
THE MESOLITHIC AGE – MIDDILE STONE AGE
THE NEOLITHIC AGE – NEW STONE AGE
THE CHALCOLITHIC AGE – COPPER AGE

4. 1) PALAEOLITHIC AGE
 Palaeolithic age was the longest part of stone age
 It can be further divided to lower, middle, upper
palaeolithic age
 The palaeolithic age men used rough nd rude stone
implements
 The main occupation was hunting and food gathering
 Palaeolithic men did not settle on one place for long time

5. 1) PALAEOLITHIC AGE
GROUP DANCE , BHIMBETKA
HUNTING,BHIMBETKA
BOAR,ALTMIRA,SPAIN
BISON,CHAUVET,FRANCE
OX(LASCAUX,FRANCE)

6. 1. (1) PALAEOLITHIC TOOLS
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT OF EARLY HUMANS

7. 1. (2) PALAEOLITHIC SITE
BHIMBETKA IN MADHYAPRADESH IS A REMARKABLE PALAEOLITHIC SITE.

8. 2) MESOLITHIC AGE
 It is the geological age between palaeolithic and
neolithic ages
 They used small stone tools with sharp points
 These types of tools were used in the period subsequent to
palaeolithic age
 This age is known as the mesolithic age
 Hunting became extensive in the mesolithic age
 As a result many animals became extinct
 Mammoth is an example for such a species
 Man discoverded new sources of food in this period
 They ate edible grass,dolphin,otter,whale, fishes,and so

9. 2) (1) MESOLITHIC CHARACTERISTIC
MAMMOTH:- MAMMOTHS WHO BELONG TO THE ELEEPHANT FAMILY LIVED
AROUND TEN THOUSAND YEARS BACK

10. 2) (2) MEOLITHIC TOOLS

11. 3) NEOLITHIC AGE
 In the period subsequent to the mesolithic age , man began to use
polished stone tools
 This period is called the neolithic age
 The beginning of cultivation was the major progress in this period
that dates around eight thousand years back
 The change from food gathering to food production is landmark in the
history of human life
 Environmental changes, scarcity of food population growth, etc are
pointed out as the major
reasons that led to cultivation
 Man began to cultivate and settle down in the river valleys
 Gordon childe, the historian , termed these changes as neolithic
revolution
 In the neolithic age human beings began to rear animals for food
 They began a settled life for the purpose of cultivation and
domestication of animals
 Wheat, barley jute different kinds of tubers paddy plantain etc were
the major crops of that age

12. 3) NEOLITHIC AGE
Edakkal cave image
Decrated pot
technologies

13. 4) CHALCOLITHIC AGE
 The chalcolithic age was a transition period from
the stoneage to metal age
 In addition to the stone tools, the people of
period made copper tools as well
 Catalhoyuk in turkey is amajor site from where
evidence for human life in the neolithic and the
chalolithic ages have been discovered

14. 4) CHALCOLITHIC AGE
(EXCAVATION IN CATALHOYK)
CLAY POT – MEHRGAH

15. THE END
MOHAMMED RISHAD CT