Palaeolithic Age
The Paleolithic Age can be divided into 3 parts:
The Lower Paleolithic Age
The Middle Paleolithic Age
The Upper Paleolithic Age
Now, lets talk about all 3 of them!
An Early man lighting a fire with his own hands
The Lower Paleolithic Age
It was an era between 1.5 million to 200,000 years ago that can be found in almost every part of India, but not in Sri Lanka.
Handaxe tradition and the eastern chopping tool tradition are two key early tool building traditions.
These tool-making traditions seem to have spread in sync with the growth of bamboo.
In this era, man started to make tools out of stone.
The Middle Paleolithic Age
It was an era between 250,000 to 30,000 years ago.
The stone-flake tool industry is widely distributed in India, Pakistan, etc.
The cave of Darra-i Kur in North-eastern Afghanistan produced a fossil that is anatomically related to the modern Homosapien!
The Upper Paleolithic Age
The Upper Paleolithic saw the emergence of more sophisticated tools.
It lasted from about 50,000-40,000 years ago until about 10,000 years ago.
It was characterized by the emergence of regional stone tool industries.
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