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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