| Stone Age |
Primary Culture |
Major Sites |
Importance |
| Lower Palaeolithic |
Flakes, Chopper Chopping Culture |
- Kashmir, Punjab, Whole India Except Sind and Kerala.
- Main: Sohan (Punjab), Singrauli Basin (U.P.), Chotanagpur (Jharkhand), Assam, Narmada, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka
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- Pebble and hand axe tools, fossil of home erectus from hathnora (Narmada Basin)
- Represented by Sohan Culture (now in Pakistan)
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| Middle Palaeolithic |
Scraper / Borer Culture |
Nevasa (Maharashtra), Didwana (Rajasthan), Bhimbetka (M.P.), Bankura and Purulia (West Bengal), Narmada Valley etc. |
- Varieties of Blades, Points, Borer and Scraper made of Flakes.
- 200 rock shelters and caves are located on Bhimbetka hills having thousands of paintings
- The age of Neanderthal Man
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| Upper Palaeolithic |
Blade and Burin Culture |
A.P. (Kurnool, Chittor) Karnataka, Central MP, Jharkhand Plateau, U.P., Rajasthan, Gujarat |
- Earlier “Homo Sapiens”
- Harpoon, blade tools from Renugupta (AP)
- Bone tools from Kurnool
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| Mesolithic Age |
Microliths Culture or Fluting & Geometrical tools |
Karnataka, Rajasthan (Bagor, Tilwara), Gujarat (Langhnaj), M.P., T.N., W. Bengal (Birbhanpur), U.P. (Sarai Nahar Rai) |
- Microlith (a great technological development, introduction of compound tools)
- Man still a savage but pottery making (Tilwara) and permanent habitation found, still a hunter, fisher
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| Neolithic Age |
Polished Tool Culture |
Mehargarh, Peninsular India, Kashmir (Burzahom, Gufkral), Assam (Daojili Hading), Garohill Meghalaya, Bihar (Chirand), Kotdiji, Amri etc. |
- Earliest farming community
- Kinship became the basis of social organisation
- Pit dwelling houses (Burzahom)
- Food began to be cooked by fire
- Evidence dogs, circular huts made of bamboo, bone tools, hand made pottery etc.
- Also called “Neolitchi Revolution”
- Boat making, spinning cotton and wool
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