Paleolithic Age

Paleolithic Age
The human beings living in the Paleolithic Age were essentially food gatherers and depended on nature for food. The art of hunting and stalking wild animals individually and later in groups led to these people making stone weapons and tools. First, crudely carved out stones were used in hunting, but as the size of the groups began increase and there was need for more food, these people began to make ?specialized tools? by flaking stones, which were pointed on one end. There kind of tools were generally used to kill small animals and for tearing flesh from the carcass of the hunted animals. The basic technique of making these crude tools was by taking a stone and flaking its sides with a heavier stone. These tools were characteristic of the Paleolithic Age and were very rough. By this time, human beings had come to make and use fire.

Stone Age ........part 1

Stone Age
The age when the prehistoric man began to use stones for utilitarian purpose is termed as the Stone Age. The Stone Age is divided into three broad divisions ? Paleolithic Age or the Old Stone Age ( from unknown till 8000 BC), Mesolithic Age or the Middle Stone Age (8000 BC ? 4000 BC) and the Neolithic Age or the New Stone Age (4000 BC ? 2500 BC) on the basis of the stone tools, which were made during that time.