Question

E. Answer the following questions.
1. Describe any four major changes that took place in human life during Mesolithic
age.
2. What were the beliefs of Neolithic man about life?
3. How did the invention of wheel help in the development of human civilisation?
4. Distinguish between Paleolithic and Neolithic Age with respect to tools, occupations and invention
5. How were the tools of Paleolithic man different from that of Mesolithic age?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The Mesolithic Age was a transitional phase between the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age. It has the characteristics of both the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age. The people of this age lived on hunting, fishing, and food gathering while at a later stage they also domesticated animals.
2. People of the Neolithic age were animists. They believed that all the elements of the natural world, like animals, forests, mountains, rivers, and stones, had self-consciousness.
3. Wheels with spokes, first made around 2000 BC, were lighter, enabling vehicles to move faster. Wheels were initially useful on carts and chariots pulled by oxen or horses. But humans discovered that a wheel powered by people, animals, wind or flowing water can be put to many other uses.
4. Paleolithic tools were made of wood, stone and animal bones. ... Neolithic era tools were more sophisticated. A variety of tools were invented in the New Stone age, such as sickle blades and grinding stones for agriculture, and pottery and bone implements for food production.
5. Mesolithic tools were generally composite devices manufactured with small chipped stone tools called microliths and retouched bladelets. The Paleolithic utilized more primitive stone treatments, and the Neolithic mainly used polished rather than chipped stone tools.