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    The document provides information about the Stone Age in India, beginning around 25,000 BCE. It discusses important Stone Age sites found across India, including Bhimbetka Rock Shelters which contain some of the earliest traces of human life in South Asia dating back around 30,000 years. Excavations at Bhimbetka have uncovered artifacts ranging from the Acheulian period to historical times. The Bhimbetka rock art is divided into three main periods: Mesolithic, Chalcolithic, and Historical.

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    The document provides information about the Stone Age in India, beginning around 25,000 BCE. It discusses important Stone Age sites found across India, including Bhimbetka Rock Shelters which contain some of the earliest traces of human life in South Asia dating back around 30,000 years. Excavations at Bhimbetka have uncovered artifacts ranging from the Acheulian period to historical times. The Bhimbetka rock art is divided into three main periods: Mesolithic, Chalcolithic, and Historical.

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    STONE AGE & INDIA

    Lecture by: Neelima Yadav


    EARLY TIMELINE

    Life Before Mankind 25,00,000 BCE


    Hominids
    Stages Of Early Man Human Development
    Stage 1
    Stage 2
    Stage 3
    Ice Age
    The Last Ice Age
    Neolithic Age
    Agricultural Revolution
    Jericho
    Çatalhöyük
    Megalithic
    Stonehenge
    Neolithic
    Sesklo
    Dimini 4,000 BCE
    The story of human evolution began in Africa about six million years ago
    and it describes the very long process that our ancestors went through to
    ultimately become modern humans.
    This process has been uncovered by studying fossils and understanding
    the underlying theory of evolution, and while new fossils are uncovered
    every decade revealing new chapters, scientists agree about the basic
    story.
    • The earliest humans were found in Africa, 2 to 6 million years ago, all
    come from that continent.
    • Early humans migrated out of Africa into Asia between 2 million and 1.7
    million years ago,
    • Entering Europe some time within the past 1 million years
    Beginning of Stone age
    The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was
    widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion
    surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between
    6000 BC (or BCE) and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking.

     Stone Age 5,00,000 BC- 5,000 BC


     Bronze Age 5,000 BC- 2,500 BC
     Iron Age 2,500- 700 BC
    25,00,000 BCE 40,000 BCE 4,000 BCE
    7
    6

    Domestication

    5
    Agriculture
    4

    Storage

    3
    Habitat
    2

    Fire
    1
    Hunting

    Making of Tools
    STONE AGE TOOLS
    INDIAN STONE AGE
    Important stone age sites in India
    • Bhimbedka, Bhopal, most significant Paleolithic site in Asia.
    • Kuliana and Kamarpara, Burhabalang, Brahmani and Mahanadi valley sites are
    located in Orissa, India.
    • Sohan valley (a tributary of the Indus) site is located near the city of Rawalpindi,
    Pakisthan.
    • Giddalur, Nagarjunakonda sites in Andhra Pradesh, India.
    • Manjankaranai site, Vadamadurai and Attirampakkam sites, Guddiyan mountain
    valley sites are in and around Chennai, India.
    • Chirki river valley site is located in Maharashtra, India.
    • Birbhanpur site on the Damodar river valley in Burdwan district. This site is
    important for both Paleolithic and Neolithic finds.
    • Baghmundi, Kangsabati and Kopai river valley sites were discovered and studied
    by West Bengal State Archaeology Department.
    Bhimbetka Rock Shelters
    30,000 Year Old
    The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site of the
    Paleolithic, exhibiting the earliest traces of human life on the Indian
    subcontinent, and thus the beginning of the South Asian Stone Age.
    The Bhimbetka rock art sites is located about 45 kilometers south-east of
    Bhopal, have become famous: they are the ones that are always
    mentioned whenever Indian rock art is alluded to.
    They were discovered and revealed to the world by V. S. Wakankar from
    1957 onwards. Bhimbetka, set in the Vindhyan range of central India, is
    covering an area of about ten kilometers by two. On seven hills more than
    500 painted sandstone shelters are known in an environment of forests,
    nowadays threatened by population increase and pressure.
    Excavations carried out at Bhimbetka have revealed occupational deposits
    ranging from the Acheulian to Historical times. As to the art, the three
    main periods recognized by most Indian researchers:
    • Mesolithic roughly 12,000 to 5,000 BCE,
    • Chalcolithic (roughly 5,000 to 2,500 BP) and
    • Historical, from 2,500 BP onwards) are present on the shelter walls.
    3100 BCE (5500 year old)

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