This document provides an overview of the Stone Age period in three parts: Paleolithic Period from 500,000 BC to 10,000 BC when early humans used crude stone tools for hunting and gathering and lived nomadically. Mesolithic Period from 10,000 BC to 8,000 BC when humans began using smaller microlith tools and semi-settled lifestyles. Neolithic Period from 8,000 BC to 4,000 BC marking the emergence of agricultural practices, domesticated animals, settled villages, pottery, weaving, and burial rituals. Sites from each period are listed throughout India.

1. WELCOME
Dr.DEEPA M.S
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF
HISTORY
S.N COLLEGE,KOLLAM

2. Stone age can be divided in to
Three
Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age)
Mesolithic Period (Middle Stone
Age)
Neolithic Period (New Stone
Age)
Stone Age
Stone was the main material used to make tools till 3000 B C, this
long period was known as stone age .

3. Paleolithic Period
Extended from 500000 B C to 10000 BC
Features sites
 Crude unpolished stone
tools
 Hunters and food
gatherers
 Lived in caves and tree
tops
 They used bark of trees
animal skin for covering
body
 They are wandering
people
 The Sivalik hills of
South India
 Bhimpetka in
Madyapradesh
 Adamgarh hill in
Narmada valley
 Kurnool in
Andrapradesh
 Attirampakkam near
Chennai

4. Tools
Made with hard rock known as quartizite
 Hand Axes
 Choppers
 Large pebbles
Hand Axe

5. Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
 Transitional phase between Paleolithic and Neolithic
period.
 Extended from 10000 B C to 8000 BC.
 The hunting and gathering pattern of life continued.
 They used more advanced flint tools called Microliths.
 They used bows and arrows .
 Began a tendancy to settle for longer periods in an
area.
 Domestication of animals also started.
 Burials of dead along with some microliths seem to
have been practiced.

6. Tools
 Flint tools called
microliths.
 Animal bones and horns
were also used to make
tools.
 Smaller, sharper and
more effective tools than
earlier.
 These tools have been
found at
 Langhanj in Gujarat
 Adamgarh in
Madyapradesh
 Rajasthan.
 Utter Pradesh.
 Bihar.

7. Neolithic or New Stone Age
 Extended from 8000 B C to 4000.
 Practice of agriculture.
 Domestication of animals.
 Settled Life.
 Great improvement in technology of making tools.
 Used polished stone tools.
 Invention of wheel.
 Making pottery.
 Used clothes made of cotton and wool.
 Cooking food.

8.  Emergence of village community
 Worship the nature forces.
 Buried the dead.
 Believed in life after death.
 They are interested in cave paintings.

9. sites
 Kashmeer valley
 Chirand in Bihar
 Bellan valley in Utterpradesh.
 Daccan.
 Brahmagiri
 Karnataka.
 Tamilnadu.
 Andrapradesh.

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