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UPPCS Ancient History Gap Sheet: Prehistory and Archaeological Cultures.
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Stone Age labels describe tools and ways of living, not one date for all regions. Hunting and gathering dominated the Palaeolithic; microliths mark the Mesolithic; farming and polished tools are major Neolithic features.
Read a site with its region and evidence. Pottery, burials, crops and metal objects identify a culture, but a single find does not prove that every settlement had the same features.
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Tools and chronology
- Middle Palaeolithic flakes · Flake tools became important.
- Upper Palaeolithic blades · Blade and burin tools are characteristic.
- Mesolithic microliths · Small stone tools were often fitted into composite tools.
- Neolithic farming · Cultivation, animal keeping and polished stone axes are key features.
- Chalcolithic technology · Copper and stone tools were used together.
- Megalithic burials · Many large-stone monuments mark burials; southern examples often contain iron objects.
- Three-Age classification · C. J. Thomsen classified antiquities into Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.
Sites outside UP
- Bhimbetka rock shelters · Madhya Pradesh; prehistoric rock paintings.
- Mehrgarh early farming · Balochistan, Pakistan; early farming and herding settlement.
- Burzahom pit dwellings · Kashmir; pit dwellings and human burials with dogs.
- Gufkral Neolithic settlement · Kashmir; pit dwellings are known here.
- Bagor animal keeping · Rajasthan; Mesolithic evidence of animal domestication.
- Adamgarh animal keeping · Madhya Pradesh; Mesolithic animal domestication evidence.
- Navdatoli Chalcolithic settlement · Madhya Pradesh, near the Narmada; excavated by H. D. Sankalia.
- Pallavaram handaxe discovery · Robert Bruce Foote found a Palaeolithic handaxe here in 1863.
UP archaeological evidence
- Lahuradewa rice evidence · Sant Kabir Nagar; an important early rice site in the Ganga plain.
- Mahadaha bone ornaments · Pratapgarh; Mesolithic burials and bone ornaments.
- Damdama multiple burial · Pratapgarh; three skeletons were found in one grave.
- Hastinapur pottery sequence · Meerut; important for Ochre Coloured Pottery and Painted Grey Ware studies.
- Atranjikhera iron evidence · Etah; important early iron and Painted Grey Ware evidence.
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⚠️ Chalcolithic means copper with stone tools; it does not mean widespread iron use. Avoid absolute claims about the earliest rice or iron evidence.
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