History

History

Pre-Historic Period

* Prehistory is the period from the time that modern humans first appear until the appearance of recorded history following the invention of writing systems. 

* Pre-historic period is divided into three section- 

1) Stone age

2) Bronze age 

3) Iron age

* Stone age is also divided into three periods, i.e. 

1) Palaeolithic Age

2) Mesolithic Age

3) Neolithic Age

* The Greater part of the Ice Age is coverd by the Lower Palaeolithic Age. Here people used tgop eat fruits, birds and raw animal flesh e.t.c. and tools usually made of hard roch. 

* In Middle Palaeolithic age a bit change occurred in the shape of tools made of stones or bones. 

* In Upper Palaeolithic age, humans lived as nomadic hunter gatherers. 

* Mesolithic Age was an intermediate stage in the stone age. It ended with the introduction of Agriculture.

* Neolithic age was an age of polished tool culture. Tool making became an important profession and a variety of polished tools were manufactured. They learnt the art of pottery and their pots were well made and decorated with paintings. 

* They discovered the art of producing fire by the friction of stones and the wheel was also an important discovery of this age.

* Chalcolithic Age is marked by the use of copper as copper age. The economy was based on subsistence agriculture, stock-raising, hunting and fishing. 

* The chalcolithic people slaughtered animals for food. Neither they milked animal for dairy products nor did they practise cultivation. 

* It was the transitional stage when both bronze, copper and stone tools were used and humans started living settled in life. 

* Iron age was the last and main age of pre-historic period.