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Palaeolithic Mesolithic Neolithic

Old Stone Age Late Stone Age New Stone Age

Lower Middle Upper

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3.5 Million 40K 6k

Years Ago Years Ago Years Ago

Lower Palaeolithic Middle Palaeolithic Upper Palaeolithic Mesolithic Neolithic

1 Lakh 10K
Years Ago Years Ago

PLEISTOCENE HOLOCENE
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Potter’s Wheel

9K 3K
Years Ago 6500 Years Ago
Years Ago

3.5 Million 40K 6k

Years Ago Years Ago Years Ago

Lower Palaeolithic Middle Palaeolithic Upper Palaeolithic Mesolithic

Neolithic
1 Lakh 10K
Years Ago Years Ago

PLEISTOCENE HOLOCENE
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3K Plants
Years Ago
Neolithic

Hunting-Gathering Domestication

9K
Years Ago

Animals
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If After harvesting, some grain is

Plants consumed for food and the rest is put
Domestication aside and later intentionally planted,
3K this is called stage of Plant
Years Ago Domestication.
Neolithic

9K
Years Ago
When grain is harvested and all
of it is consumed it is called
Food Collection.
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3K Plants
Years Ago
Neolithic

Hunting-Gathering Domestication

9K
Years Ago

Animals
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When wild animals are removed

from their natural habitat and
Animals maintained and bred under artificial
conditions by people for their profit,
3K
Domestication this is the stage of Animal
Years Ago Domestication.
Neolithic

9K
Years Ago
When certain species of animals are
captured and kept, this is a stage of
Animal Keeping.
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3K
Years Ago
Animals Plants
Neolithic

Domestication Domestication

9K
Years Ago
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Granary
Storage
Pottery for Foot Wheels
cooking, eating
3K Ragi, Horse gram and drinking Made up of Mud
Years Ago and Rice Circular or Rectangular
Neolithic

Animals Plants Human

Sedentary
Domestication Domestication Settlements
Lifestyle
9K
Years Ago Stone Celts

This eventually led to the Hunting was

stage of developed still in Polished
Agriculture practice. Stone Tools
& Bone Tools
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Innovation in Stone Tool Technology

Invention of Pottery
3K
Years Ago
Greater degree of sedentary living
Neolithic

Emergence of small and self sufficient villages

Animal Domestication
9K
Years Ago
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Gufrakal

3K
Years Ago
Neolithic

9K
Years Ago an
ist
ch
lo
Ba
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These were
It seems potters wheel came to Balochistan from western made up of Mud
Asia and from here it spread across the sub-continent Bricks
Gufrakal

3K
Years Ago Granary
Neolithic

substantial quantities.
Lived in Mud-Brick
Houses They used to produce wheat and Barley
from the very beginning.
9K Oldest Neolithic Settlement in the
Years Ago Indian Sub-continent.

Largest Neolithic Settlement between the

Indus and Mediterranean
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People used to live there on a lake-side ( The Place of Birch )

in pits called Dwelling Pits

Dwelling Pit
Gufrakal
( The Cave of the potter )
3K
Years Ago
Neolithic

9K
Years Ago
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Coarse Grey Pottery

People used to live there on a lake-side
in pits called Dwelling Pits ( The Place of Birch )
Gufrakal
( The Cave of the potter )
3K
Years Ago Complete absence of microlith tools.
Polished stone tools and Bone Tools
Neolithic

Hunting, Fishing
Agriculture, Animal Husbandry
9K
Years Ago
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Only other place, other than

Kashmir, where Bone tools
were found.
3K
Years Ago
Chirand Assam
Neolithic

Garo Hills
Chopani Mando

Cultivation of Rice

9K
Years Ago
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Chirand Assam
Garo Hills
Chopani Mando

Settlements have been found either on

3K the top of granite hills or on the
Years Ago
plateaus near the river banks.
Neolithic

9K
Years Ago

Millet and Pulse Farming

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Chirand Assam
Garo Hills
Chopani Mando

Settlements have been found either on

3K the top of granite hills or on the
Years Ago
plateaus near the river banks.
Neolithic

Utnur
Piklihal
Kupgal
9K
Years Ago
Ash Mounds
have been found
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Palaeolithic Mesolithic Neolithic

Old Stone Age Late Stone Age New Stone Age

Lower Middle Upper

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Palaeolithic Mesolithic Neolithic

Old Stone Age Late Stone Age New Stone Age

Lower Middle Upper