UGC NET - Lower Palaeolithic Period in India

     The earth is over 4000 million years old. Man is said to have appeared on the earth in the early pleistocene, when true oxe, elephant, horse also originated in 5000,000 BC. This period is divided into 3 phases according to the nature of stone tools and also nature of change in the climate. Sites  found in many hilly slopes and river valleys.

lower palaeolithic period-5000,000 BC to 50,000 BC

Tools made of pebbles of quartzite( rough stone)

Tools like choppers, hand axes and cleavers

usage of tools: chopping, digging, skinning

major sites are:          las bela, bugti hills, beas to brahmaputra, rohri hills, riwat and siwalik,soan river, thar desert, didwana, kashmir, belan valley, bhimbetka, ganga plains, dina and jabalpur, saurashtra sehwal deposit in son valley, adamgarh, hungsi, attirampakkam, jalore, kuliana, lalitpur, kibbanhalli, pawagarh, chirki, anagawadi and bagalkot.

human beings:

homo habilis, homo erectus, java and peking, neandarthal