Prelims · 1 Ancient & Medieval India · APPSC Group 2
1.1.1 Prehistoric India notes
4 notes, in reading order.
- 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.
Standard · 6 min · Free in the app - 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.
Standard · 6 min · Free in the app - 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.
Standard · 5 min · Free in the app - 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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