Tag: social studies

Daojali Hading is a site on the hills near the Brahmaputra Valley, close to routes leading into China and Myanmar. Here stone tools, including mortars and pestles, have been found. These indicate that people were probably growing grain and preparing food from it. Other finds include jadeite, a stone that may have been brought from China. 

Mehrgarh is a Neolithic site on the Kacchi Plain.

The burial site of Mehrgarh shown that the dead people were buried with Goats.

Hallur is an archaeological site located in the Haveri District, in the Indian state of Karnataka

Hallur, South india's earliest Iron Age site lies in a semi-arid region with scrub vegetation, located on the banks of the river Tungabhadra the site is a low mound about 6.4 m high.

The site was first discovered by Nagaraja Rao in 1962, and excavated in 1965.

Further sampling was carried out in the late 1990s for the recovery of archaeobotanical evidence and new high precision radiocarbon dates.

Daojali Hading is located in Assam. It is the most well-known sites of entire Northeast India located in a low hillock having an altitude of 1,000 feet AMSL in the North Cachar Hills.

False.

Hunter-gatherers used to live in a temporary settlement close to water.

Traces of ash have been found in the Kumool caves.

This suggests that people in the past used fire. Answer: They used fire to make light, to cook meat and to frighten animals.

The Paleolithic Age is also called the Old Stone Age. The Paleolithic Age began about 2.5 million years ago and lasted until around 8000 B.C. Remember, that is about 4,500 years earlier than recorded time, which starts about 5,500 years ago. Try to imagine what life was like during the Paleolithic Age.

Settled Life began only after man settled down and started practicing agriculture during the Neolithic age.