History of India - A Saga Part-1

The Stone Age

  India, the nation of colours, the nation of brotherhood, the nation of spirituality, the nation of gods. India the subcontinent of the great landmass of South Asia, also considered as a giant of two of South Asia and also a part of ancient great 'Gondwanaland'.
   The past of India brings with a timeline of evolution, the evolution of human civilization. One of the oldest civilization of the world exists in India. But studying History of India is a little complicated. From the Paleolithic to modern age the land has play role as a spectator. Researchers and scholars have chronologically divided the history of India into three parts- Ancient History, Medieval History and Modern History. In my blog, I have made an effort to simplify the beautiful and rich history of India in this compilation. Here I will start from the earliest period.

    The Palaeolithic Age:

    The Palaeolithic Age in India is divided into three phases; Early or Lower Palaeolithic, the second or Middle Palaeolithic, third or Upper Palaeolithic. The first phase places between 500,000 B.C. and 50,000 B.C. the second-placed between 50,000 B.C. and 40,000 B.C. the third-placed between 40,000 and 1500 B.C.
     The Lower Palaeolithic age, also called Early Old Stone Age covers with greater part of Ice Age.
In this age, human use stone made hand-axes, cleavers and chopper. The stone tools used mainly for cropping, digging and skinning. In the South Asian region, Early Old Stone Age sites are found in the valley of River Soan or Sohan in Punjab, now Pakistan. In India, Several sites found in Kashmir and the Thar Desert. The tools of this age found in Belan Valley in Mirzapur District in Uttar Pradesh. The sites found in the desert area of Didwana in Rajasthan, in the valleys of Belan and the Narmada, and in the caves and rocks shelters of Bhimbektka near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh roughly belong to 100,000 B.C. The rock-shelters probably served as camps for human. The hand-axes have been found in a deposit of the time of the second Himalayan inter-glaciation. In this age, the climate becomes less humid.
     The Middle Paleolithic age mainly based upon flake tools. Tools are varieties of blades, points, borers and scrapers made of flakes. The artefact of this place is found at several places on the river Narmada and south of Tungabhadra river.
     The Upper Palaeolithic age coincides with the last phase of the Ice Age when the climate became comparatively warm. May be, flint industries and modern type human 'Homo Sapiens' evolved in this age. In India, evidence of blades and burins are found used by the human of this phase in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, central Madhya Pradesh, south Uttar Pradesh and south Bihar Plateau. Caves and rock shelter used by the human of this phase discovered at Bhimbetka, 5km from south of Bhopal. Some comparatively large flakes, blades, bruins and scrapers of the Upper Palaeolithic age has also been found in Gujarat dunes.
                                   
                                                                                                                        To be continued......  
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