Experience the life of Paleolithic Humans, the food they eat, the tools they used, how they lived etc.

The Old Stone Age

Man has been living in India roughly from 500,000 B.C. He used tools of unpolished, undressed, rough stones, which have been found in South India and in the Soan or Sohan river valley in Pakistan. Paleolithic sites have also been discovered in Kashmir. The chips of stone were pebbles used for hunting, cutting, and other purposes. In this period, man barely managed to gather his food and relied on hunting. He had no knowledge of cultivation and house building. This phase generally continued till 8000 B.C.

Characteristics:

• --> Industries are all based upon flakes.
• --> The principal tools are varieties of scrapers made of flakes.
• --> The artifacts of this age are also found at several places on the river Narmada and south of the Tungabhadra river.

The Late Stone Age or the Mesolithic Age intervened as a transitional phase between the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age, and is also called the Late Stone Age. In the case of India, it started about 8000 B.C. and continued up to about 4000 B.C.