In the earliest days people were :
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People were chimpanzees. These chimpanzees turned into humans by time.
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Hunter-Gatherer: Earliest People
Needless to say, the earliest people were hunter-gatherers. Because they lived out in the open, they had to hunt other animals, gather plants and fruits to produce food. Animals in that period were very fast and quick. To survive among them meant that the earliest people had to be as quick, alert and to have a good presence of mind.
As gatherers, they had a good knowledge of the plants and fruits. Considering these facts and activities they performed, they moved from one place to another. The reasons for their nomadic life were:
The resources such as food were exhausted in a particular place after some time. This made the people move from one place to another in search of a more flourishing place.
As animals too migrated from a piece of land to another, so did the earliest people. Moving from a place to another was good for hunting.
Vegetation was seasonal, to get a constant supply of food and plants they had to move.
As rivers and ponds went dry in the summer heat, people had to move to have a supply of water.
Stone Age
The earliest people lived in the prehistoric period. The main material used then for making tools was stone. Undoubtedly because of the use of stones for making tools, this period is known as the Stone Age. Stone Age further is divided into three phases, namely
Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Neolithic or New Stone Age
Palaeolithic Stone Age
The world ‘Palaeolithic’ is derived from two Greek words, ‘Palaeo’ and ‘Lithos’. The word ‘Palaeo’ means Old and ‘Lithos’ means Stone. Therefore this period is known as the Old Stone Age. Old Stone Age extends from 2 million years ago to 12,000 years ago. The tools during this period were made of stone and were blunt and no refinements.
On the Trial of the Earliest People
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We can see in this figure that these tools are big and blunt and lack refinements. Historians believe that these tools were made 2 million years ago. We also see the tools of later period. They are smaller and much sharper. These were made many thousand years after.
Mesolithic Stone Age
These tools were developed 10,000 years ago. These are much smaller and show sharper edges. Apart from stones, harder objects like bones and woods were also used to make tools and multiple other purposes. In India, some of these stone are still in use for grinding wheat to make flour and grinding spices. These uses of these tools were multidimensional such as:
For cutting meat and bones.
For scrapping bark from trees and skin from animals.
Chopping fruits and roots.
Some stones were attached to wood and bones for them to work together as a hammer or axe.
Climate
Have you seen the movie called as ‘Ice Age (part 1)’? You should. You will have a clearer idea of the climate during the Stone Age. During the Stone Age, ice was all around and there was almost no vegetation on Earth. After global warming, Ice age came to a stop as ice began melting 12,000 years ago.
The end of ice age paved a way for clearance of vast spaces of land and warm temperature for the vegetation to grow. And more vegetation meant the better availability of food for animals and plants. This was the period during which our everyday mammals proliferated.
After the meltdown of ice, grass family began to grow in the most part of the world. Wheat, Rice, and Corn are the parts of the grass family.
Habitation
On the Trial of the Earliest People
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Earliest people were spread all over the world, even in India. Some major sites during which Stone Age people lived in India are:
Bhimbekta (Madhya Pradesh)
Hungsi (Karnataka)
Kurnool Caves (Andra Pradesh)
The two most common distinction between these sites were: River and availability of Stones. Where there is water there is life, surroundings near the river are always flourished and the availability of natural vegetation is plenty. These sites are located on the Deccan Plateau, it has plenty of stones so the resources needed to make tools were easily available.
Discovery of Factory Sites
On the Trial of the Earliest People
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