Ancient History Flashcards
What is pre-history?
Calcolithic age
Copper age
What is Proto history?
History
Who started countries first archaeological survey?
Rober bruce Foote in 1863
What did Foote discovered
First conclusive stone age hand X from Pallavaram near Madras
First metal used by humans
Copper
Homo sapiens time line
What are the two theories regarding eradication of Neanderthals?
What are the evidences of human civilisation in India?
What is the epoch currently in which we are living?
Holocene
Which age are we living in
Quarternary age
Earth age
Pleistocene time period
20,00,000 years ago till 10,000 years ago
Holocene epoch period
10,000 years ago till now
Chronology of ages in India
Paleolithic.….Mesolithic… Neolithic
Paleolithic age time period in India
6 lakh BC - 10,000 BC
Paleolithic age sub classification
Lower Paleolithic age time period
6, lakh to 1.5 lakh years ago
Which species of humans were living in lower paralytic age?
Homo erectus
What tools were used by?Homo erectus in lower Paleolithic age.
Also, what was the occupation of the homo erectus in lower Paleolithic age?
Sites of LPA
Bori : mah
bhimbetka: UP
Middle pathik, age time period
1.5 lakh to 35,000 years ago
Which species of humans were present in MPA and what tools did they use?