Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Pre-History

The earth is nearly 4000 million years old. It evolved in four stages. Man is said to have appeared on the earth in the early Pleistocene stage of the Quaternary Age when true ox, true elephant and true horse also originated. But recent finds suggest that this event occurred in Africa about 2.6 million years back.

The fossils of the early human being have not been found in India. A hint of the earliest human presence in India is indicated by stone tools of about 250,000 BC obtained from the deposits. However, recently reported artefacts from Bori in Maharashtra suggest the appearance of human beings in India around 1.4 million years ago.

From their first appearance to around 3000 BC humans used only stone tools for different purposes in life. This period is, therefore, known as the Stone Age, which has been divided into Palaeolithic (early or Old Stone) Age, Mesolithic (Middle Stone) Age, and Neolithic (New Stone) Age.

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