Neolithic age-India(stone age)

Introduction

In this period people developed into a new form of Livelihood.So this age were called as Neolithic age or new stone age.This was the last stage of stone age.The people of this era totally developed into a Homo-Sapiens. These era most probably started in 9,000 B.C. in other parts of the world ,but in India it started much later in 7,000 B.C.,but not in whole India only western and central India,in eastern India it come out at 6,000 B.C.and in south India it come out at 25,00 B.C.The people of this age improvised according to new type of weather and ecosystem.

Social culture

People of this age form a advance society.They are turned into a fully human being,so they started to attached emotionally with one another in their need and deed .The creation of group in stone age started form Mesolithic age, but we found a group in advance form,like people are divided according to their work,like group of agriculturists,group of fisherman,group of pottery makers,groups of tools makers and group of food gatherers etc, and this group also started to exchange their product according to their needs.In this age new type of grave like stone grave and wooden grave also invented,this most probably happen on the last parts of Neolithic period.All this thinks must be proof from the painting they made.Anyone cannot discover the essentially of cave painting in those people life,different scholars or Archaeologists gave different assumption to this advance type of Painting like some argues that it must be used for the religious purpose,some says that they want to denotes their culture for their next generation for that how to live on this hostile climate.The cave painting was the only source by which we know about them or stone age in vast.

Lifestyle and food habit

Due to the favorable climate new type of lifestyle and food habit come out.The people started to focus only on agriculture,due to this large number of people started to live in alluvial plains and also started to advance types of crop like Rice,wheat,some kinds of vegetables.we found the evidence about Rice cultivation from southern U.P. Specially in Mirzapur district and Chirand in Bihar with fish as their diet.We found about the culture of wheat as well as cotton Grown from the areas of present day Mehrgrah-Pakistan they are more advance as compare to other areas people of India.The people of this age lived by build hut with stone as well as flower,leaves and branches of a tree, they became fully a settled down in one place depend on the favorable climate and ecosystem suited.They also started to develop polish tools as well as pottery with different kind of polish like Black polish, Grey polish which make it glories and more useful.We found the evidence of Microlithic as well as Polish tools from all over India except from Kashmir, the people of Kashmir only use old age tools or Paleolithic tools.They also started of used wooden items like crossbow for better performance.In this age they developed high qualified pottery where made for the invention of wheels and also made different vehicles too for easy travel from one place to another place like bullock cart etc.Lifestyle become more update by this invention. 

Geographical Existence

Neolithic period men mostly found in alluvial land like in front of Indus River,son river etc.The most famous area of this age are Mehrgrah in Pakistan,some parts Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab in front of Indus River, Kashmir, Chihand in Bihar, Southern & Eastern in U.P.and also in some parts of Central India like Madhya Pradesh. 

Neolithic Tools & Men

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