Question

write a brief note on the earliest neolithic site found in india

Answer 1

Answer:

By about 5000 BCE many agricultural villages had been founded in Baluchistan like Kili Ghul Muhammad and Kalat in Quetta Valley, Mundigak near Kandhar and Sari Khola in west Punjab (Pakistan). The beginning of agriculture in the Indus Plain was a major step towards the emergence of a civilisation later, as its fertile soil help produce surplus of food grains which could support the areas which did not produce food grains.

Excavation at village settlements in Kashmir Valley at, Burzahom and Gufkral throw significant light on the Neolithic culture of this region.

The area comprise the hill of Assam including north Cachar and the Naga hills.

Excavation at Daojali Hading in the North Cachar Hills have also yielded all the object noted above Neolithic culture phase has been tentatively dated around 2,000 BCE by the historians.

Answer 2

Answer:

West of the Indus River is where the Indian subcontinent's oldest Neolithic settlements first appeared. The Neolithic civilisation first emerged in Mehrgarh around 8,000 B.C., and it quickly expanded throughout the region. Domesticated sheep and goats were raised, people lived in mud homes, and wheat and barley were grown. Neolithic villages have been discovered in India's eastern (Bihar and Odisha), southern (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh), north-eastern (Meghalaya), and eastern (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh) regions.

Explanation:

The Neolithic Civilization of the valley exhibits an advanced sedentary lifestyle with specified family units living in circular huts made of timber posts and thatch; standardization of ceramics forms; nearby food processing elements like querns and mullers; specialized tools like chisels, Celts, and adzes; agriculture of rice; and domesticated animals of cattle, sheep, goats, and horses.

In India, there are primarily four categories of Neolithic agriculturally based regions:

1. Indus Valley
2. Ganga Valley
3. Western India and
4. Southern Deccan.

Mehrgarh is among the most significant Neolithic rural villages on the Indian subcontinent. In the Indian subcontinent, it is currently thought to be the oldest agricultural settlement. In the seventh millennium B.C., it was thriving. At the easternmost extremity of the Baluchistan plateau, it is situated on the Border River, an Indus tributary. Jean François Jarrige, a French archaeological, conducted Mehrgarh's excavations in 1974. Other significant Neolithic sites including Chirand in Bihar, Mahgara, Chopani Mando, and Koldihwa in the Belan Valley of Uttar Pradesh, and Gufkral and Burzahom in Kashmir. The oldest evidence of rice farming found anywhere in the globe is at sites in the Belan valley. Instead of constructing buildings on the ground, the residents of Burzahom lived in dwellings dug into the ground. Kodekal, Utnur, Nagatjunikonda, and Palavoy in Andhra Pradesh; Tekkalkolta, Maski, Narsipur, Sangankallu, Hallur, and Brahmagiri in Kannada; Pariamlpalli in Tamil Nadu; and others are some of the significant Neolithic sites in South India.

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