This document provides an outline of topics to be covered in chapters about the life of early humans and studying the past. Some of the topics included are the literary sources of Indian history, what epigraphy and inscriptions are, what numismatics is, who wrote Abhigyan Shakuntalam, how the invention of fire helped Paleolithic humans, how Stone Age humans learned about metals, characteristics of Paleolithic tools, and where remains of the Paleolithic age can be found in India.