PALEOLITHIC AGE(250,000 - 10,000 B.C)

                          PALEOLITHIC AGE 

                      (250,000-10,000 B.C)                                              

The pre-historic phase can be roughly diveded into 3 parts-

                                

   1- Paleolithic 

   2- Mesolithic

   3- Neolithic

                                                  

                                     PALEOLITHIC  AGE 

 1-  Paleolithic Culture develpoed in the Pleistocene period.

    

 2-  Pleistocene was the period when ice covered the earth surface.

 
 3-  The main tools used during this period are handaxes, cleavers,  Choppers, flakes, burins,scrapers.

4-  Their tools were made up of hard rock called ' quartzite'.

5-  The paleolithic sites are spread in pratically all parts of India except the alluvial plains of the Indus and Ganga.

                              

 6-  The people of this age lived on hunting and gathring wild  fruits and vegetables.

                              

 7-  Man during this period used tools of unpolised, undressed  rough stones and lived in cave rock shelthers.

                           
 8-  They had no knowledge of agriculture, fire or pottery of  any metal.

 9-   In the later Paleolithic phase domestication of animal  was practiced.

 10-   Homo saipens first appeared in the last of this phase.

 11-   It has been pointed out that Paleolithic men belonged to the Negrito race.