Palaeolithic Age (Old Stone Age)
1. Age and Period: The age and period of the
Palaeolithic Age extended roughly from
500,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C.
2. Food: Man used jungle vegetation and
animal flesh for food.
3. Animals: Men only chased and killed animals 3.
for their meat or for his own safety.
4. Tools: Tools and weapons of this period were 4.
mostly made of flint, but they were rough
and like handle crude.
5.
Discoveries and inventions: Man in this Age
discovered fire by chance. He also invented
crude tools.
6.
Way of life: Man in this age led a nomadic
life. His life was only a little better than that
of animals.
Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)
1. The age and period of the Neolithic Age
ughly from extended from 8,000 B.C. to 4000
B.C.
2. Man became a producer of his own food;
developed agriculture and growing of
foodgrains.
Man tamed and domesticated animals.
Besides their flesh, animals were used for
agriculture, riding and carriage.
Man of this age made better tools and
weapons rough and like handled axes,
sickles, bows and arrows. These were
sharper, stronger and more beautiful.
5.
The discovery of agriculture and invention of
so invented wheel were the major
achievements of this age.
6.
Man began to live a settled life in small
villages. He made small huts near his fields.
Some leadership patterns emerged in the
villages.