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Fire
Poisonous plants.
For survival
How do we know?
Used to cut
i. Meat
ii. Bark
iii. Hides
iv. Digging ,sewing
PRE HISTORIC PERIOD
Attachments handles>>spear arrows.
Technique of making tools
Stone on stone
One stone used as hammmer over other.
Pressure flaking
River/water source
Caves
Near stone
PLACE WHICH FULFILLED THIS
CRITERIA
Habitation site:
Where human being lived for longer times.
Evidences of fire.
Fire 2nd best friend for human being.
Uses:
i. Light
ii. Cook meat
Bhimbetka:
Habitation sites.
Caves and rock shelter.
Famous for Paleolithic painting.
Similarity in France.
Lascaux-Paleolithic cave painting found.
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It was exceptional quality, size ,sophistication
and antiquate.
20000 years old
Large animal painting.
Ostriches:
found in Maharashtra.
Paleolithic period.
Ostrich shells designed and used for beads.
PERIODS
2 million Paleolithic age(99%) Rough big tools
10000 BC
Climate change>>warmer climate>> increase in
grasslands>> increase in deer goat
sheep>>increase in hunting, learning for
domestication of small gentle animals
domestica
Food
Hunter tion of agriculture
gatherer
animals
FROM GATHERING TO GROWING FOOD.
Let us see evolution from food gathering to
domestication of animals and agriculture.
Plants:
verities of food:
Fruits
Vegetables
Grains
Animals
milk , meat
FROM GATHERING TO GROWING FOOD.
At different places different varieties of crops are
available in different seasons and different
conditions.
So , one can not rely to survive because condition
changes wont facilitate plant growth. So ultimately
they have to move.
10000 BC climate change>> plants and animals also
changed(earlier wild , now more gentle) since they are
not harmful, they can be keep with us as they were
giving milk as well, thus domestication started.
First dog, then sheep , got , cattle; they become
herders.
HOW AGRICULTURE STARTED?
Observation:
Seed thrown on ground and resulted in
germination and crop, so giving it produce
Then and there by throwing seed. So human
being thought at that time…
HOW AGRICULTURE STARTED?
This is nice, we will protect it because it is giving
, giving at this place only, no need to roam for
gathering. So we stay here till the time it give
grains, then human being started to live at one
place and tried to protect from wild , cut extra
weed. This is how agriculture grew.
Domestication:
Process in which people grow plant and look
after animals.
AGRICULTURE
Once agriculture started , sedentary life started.
How?
Pottery
Weaving(basket) baskets
Dug pit
EVOLUTION
• Food gathering
A • Hunting
• Domestication of animals
B • Agriculture
• Sedentary life
C • Art(pottery)
PLACES
• Mehrgarh(Pakistan)
• Burzahome(Jammu and kashmir)
• Koldihwa(UP)
• Chairand(Bihar)
• Dioji heading(North east region,china
Bones of myanmar border)
different • Hallur(Karnataka)
animals • Paiyampalli(Tamil nadu)
PLACES
SATTLED LIFE
So, now settled life began.
For this, homes/houses and traces of it found.
@Burzahome pit house found.
Cooking hearth-inside and outside, Neolithic
polished stone tools, mortars, pestals found,
Paleolithic continued.
Earthen pots
Decorated one
cooking
Storing
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Weaving clothes
cotton may be started to grown
Different materials used.
Customs
less idea about tribal customs
What is tribes?
2 3 generations live together. They are mostly
related to each other. A big joint family.
what this 2 3 generation work?
Farming, fishing,herding, hunting, gathering.
MORE ABOUT TRIBES.
Some men were leader in tribes.
Old
Experienced
Young fighter
Priest
Lower paleolithic:
LOWER PALEOLITHIC AGE
Bori cave:
First evidences of human sattlement.
Pallavaram-first paleolithic site found in india by
robert ruce.
Archeological survey of India- 1st director
alaxander cunningham.
MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC AGE
Hallur
Maski in karnataka
Nagarjunkonda in andhrapradesh.
iron artifacts such as hoes and sickles and small weapons were
bear paintings.
BHIMBETKA CAVE ENTRANCE.
REGIONAL PAINTING
The themes of paintings found here are of great
variety,
ranging from mundane events of daily life in those
times to
sacred and royal images. These include hunting,
dancing,
music, horse and elephant riders, animal fighting,
honey
collection, decoration of bodies, and other household
scenes
REGIONAL PAINTING
successive periods.
UPPER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD.
UPPER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD.