Mesolithic people are mainly hunters and herders.Their time in between 9000BC - 4000BC.This time beginning of Holocene epoch.Homo sapiens as the only living species of the genus Homo. In this time climate became warm and dry.Change in flora and fauna.This period is otherwise called intermediate stage and transitional period.
Main jobs are:
Flakes, blades, burins are used.
major characteristics:
sites:
Evidences of:
Main jobs are:
- hunting
- gathering
- fishing
- domestication of animals
- pastoralism
- primitive cultivation
- horticulture
- nomadic
Flakes, blades, burins are used.
major characteristics:
- pot making: first time make crude pots in chopani mando.
- habitational settlements were in or near rock shelters in m.p.
- postholes or circular huts
- grave goods within the habitational area
- band of people with some demarcation of families
- rock cut art: bhimbetka, morhana pahar, pratapgarh, mirzapur, and pachmarhi
- agriculture in a primitive level
- kind of stone:quartz,chert, agate, chalcedony
- life style:evidences of religious belief,art
sites:
- tilwara
- budha pushkar
- sambhar
- bagor
- basins of gujarat
- langhnaj
- hirapur
- barasimla
- sidhpur
- sarai-nahar-rai
- mahadaha
- adamgarh
- birbhanpur
- morhana pahar
- chopani mando
- teri
- kibbanhalli
- nagarjunakonda
Evidences of:
- pottery
- domestication
- primitive cultivation
- burial practices
- religious belief
- rice
- burned clay
- settlements
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