1.1.1 Prehistoric India notes

1. 1.1.1.1Sources of ancient Indian history: literary, archaeological and foreign

   Ancient Indian history is rebuilt from three kinds of evidence: texts written in India, material remains dug up by archaeologists (including inscriptions and coins), and accounts left by foreign visitors.

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2. 1.1.1.2Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ages: tools, sites and Bhimbetka rock art

   Old Stone Age people were mobile hunter-gatherers using large flaked tools; Mesolithic people used tiny stone tools (microliths), hunted with bow and arrow, and began herding animals.

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3. 1.1.1.3Neolithic age: first farmers – Mehrgarh, Burzahom and Chirand

   The Neolithic brought farming, herding, pottery and polished stone tools, and with them the first settled villages in the subcontinent.

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4. 1.1.1.4Chalcolithic cultures and megalithic burials

   Chalcolithic villages used copper along with stone and farmed in the semi-arid zones of Rajasthan, Malwa and Maharashtra; megalithic builders of the peninsula buried their dead under large stones and used iron.

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