Paleolithic period - Pre history in India

•Mostly this period found in South India

Gulbarg,Hunsgi,Attiram Pakkam

•Time period

1,00,00 - 8,000

•Industry

Flakes (old stone tools)

•Human evolution

 1) Dryopithecus - Sahara
 2) Ramapithecus - Sivapithecus
 3) Australopithecus - Africa
 4) Homo Erectus - Africa, Europe,Java
 5) Homo Species
 6) Homo Sapience

• Cultural ( Phases)

 1) Lower _ handaxe and cleaver(Heavy tools) - Pebbles
 2) Middle_Small, thinner,lighter- point, Javelin
 3) Upper_ blade- knife,talwar(sword)

• Pottery

Potsherds ( a piece of broken mud pottery may be referred to as a shard)

•Flora

 Banana, coconut

•Fauna

 Dog (deer , Elephant)

• Cremation

 Dead body burned( burning system)

• special feature

 Biological evolution and cultural development in Paleolithic Period.

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