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(a) Write the life style of the Chalcolithic people.
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With the end of the Neolithic Age, several cultures started using metal, mostly copper and low grade bronze. The culture based on the use of copper and stone was termed as Chalcolithic meaning stone-copper Phase. In India, it spanned around 2000 BC to 700 BC.
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Explanation:
Chalcolithic period:
Chalcolithic age can be considered as a transition period between Neolithic age and Bronze Age. This is the first metal age where metals like copper and its alloy bronze were discovered. As the name itself indicates, in this period both metal and stone were used for making tools vessels, for day to day life. The important sites of this age are of Indus Valley sites.
The Chalcolithic culture represented the farming culture that existed during 2000-700 B.C. People of Chalcolithic were not hunter gatherer rather they were doing farming hunting, fishing, cattle rearing, other animals that were reared were sheep, goat, buffalo and pig. Later these animals were killed for food.
Chalcolithic people used tiny tools and weapons made of stone and metals. They made bangles of copper manufactured beads of semi precious stones as carnelian, stealite, Quartz. Discovery of cotton and flax at sites shows that they knew the manufacture of threads and weaving. Unlike Paleolithic and Mesolithic Chalcolithic people used metals to make tools.
The term Chalcolithic is combination of two words namely Chalco plus lithic and which is derived from the Greek word ‘Khakos’ means copper and ‘lithos’ means stone. Chalcolithic age also known as Eneolithic age or Aneolithic age is an archaeological period.
Tools Used In Chalcolithic PeriodCrops and Occupation in Chalcolithic age
Hunting was most important occupation of people during Chalcolithic period. Cotton was also grown in black soil. Farmers used domestic animals like sheep, goat and cattle for farming and also for hunting.