Mesolithic period

 Mesolithic period (hunter and herders)

• Upper palaeolithic--- end of ice age
• Climate became warm and dry, changes in fauna and flora, possible for human to moves to new areas.
• In 9000BC began the intermediate stage-- mesolithic age.
• Transitional phase between palaeolithic and Neolithic age.
• People lived on hunting, fishing, and food gathering, interrelated to palaeolithic age.
• Later domesticated animals, interrelated to Neolithic age.
• Stone tools were microliths
• Tools used were blades, crescents, triangles,trapezes,spearheads,knives, arrowheads,sickles,harpoons and daggers.
• Evidence of domestications of animals, Adamgarh (MP),bagor((Rajasthan).
• Cultivation of plant in Rajasthan.

The various sites of the mesolithic period

1. Langhnaj in Gujarat
2. Bagor in Rajasthan
3. Sarai nahar rai,Chopani mando, mahadasha and damdama in utter Pradesh
4. Bhimbetka and Adamgarh in Madhya Pradesh
5. Orisha
6. Kerala
7. Andhra Pradesh

Prehistoric Rock art

• The rock painting depict a variety of subjects related to animals and the scenes. Including both people and animals. Besides animals and birds, fishes have also been depicted in the Rock paintings.
• The Rock paintings portrayed human beings involved in various activities such as dancing, running, hunting, playing games, and engaged in battle.
• The colour used in these Rock paintings are deep red, green,white, and yellow.
• The rhinoceros hunting scene from the Adamgarh rock, shelters reveals that large number of people joins together for the hunt of bigger animals.

Important Rock paintings sites

1. Murhana pahar in utter Pradesh
2. Bhimbetka, Adamgarh, lakha juar in Madhya Pradesh
3. Kupagallu in Karnataka