Man living in India 5 lac BC

Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)-Pleistocene 1 lac BC to 8k BC

Animal remains

Lower Paleo
Hand axes, cleavers
Punjab, Pakistan
Mirzapur, UP- Caves, Rock Shelters

Paleolithic Site

In Vindhyas and Belan Valley, all three phases of Paleolithic,

Mesolithic and Neolithic phases are found

Mesolithic (Late Stone Phase)

Chhotanagpur, Central India, Krishna River

Neolithic- Burzahom
Hunting and fishing economy
Polished stone tools, bone tools
Coarse grey pottery
Brial with dogs
South India as well
Assam
Garo Hills
Culitvation of rice
Piklihal- slash and burn
Circular and fectangular houses
Ragi and kulhati
Chhotanagpur plateau, Kurnool (Andhra)
sheep, goat, cattle domesticated

Middle
based on flakes
borers, blade like tools
Soan Valley
Narmada, Tungabhadra rivers
Paleolithic Sites are found in all places except Ganga Alluvial Plains
 Mirzapur, UP

Upper
Less humid
coincided with last phase of ice age- climate became warm
Caves in Bhimbetka
Homo Sapiens appeared
ept Ganga Alluvial Plains
Copper First Metal to be used
SE Rajasthan (Ahar, Gulund), W MP, W Maharshatra, E India
W MP- Malwa, Kayatha , Eran
Inamgaon, Nashik, Navdatoli (Maharashtra)
Brown balck soil (Ber, babul vegetation)
Andhra Pradesh (but no Copper objects found)
Allahabad (Dur to proximity to Vindhyas)

Eastern India-
Chirand- Ganga
Pandu Rajar Dhibi- Burdwan
Mahishdal- Midnapore

Small tools and stone weapons Microliths

Blades of Stone Weapons were important

Black and red pottery

Ate beef, but not pork
Cultivated Bajra

Fish hooks found in Bihar and Bengal

Not acquanited with burnt bricks
Large families, stable settlements- wide spread Jorwe Culture Greater than 35 houses in nucleated se
Some settlements were fortified by moat- but no urban culture
Beginning of social inequality
Rural Settlements
Use of lota, no use of thali
I South India, Neolithic phase faded smoothly into copper phase

Mah- dead boady placed in N-S position

South- dead body placed in E-W Position
High infant mortality rate
han 35 houses in nucleated settlements
Older than Chalcolithic