History maker: Neolithic period

Neolithic period (Food producer)

In world this period began in 9000BC.
The only settlement in indian sub-continent attributed to 7000BC in mehargarh, Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Some sites are found in north of vindhya are considered as old as 5000BC.
Neolithic settlements in South India are not older than 2500BC.
Tools and implements of polished stone particularly used as stone axes.
Based on types of axes there are three important areas ---

1: North Western

Rectangular axes with curved cutting adges.

2: North Eastern

Polished stone axes with rectangular butt and occasional shouldered hoes.

3: Southern

Axes with oval sides and pointed butt.

In Northwest Kashmir culture: Dwelling pits, ceramics, variety of stones and bone tools and absence of microliths.
Burzahom (Kashmir) : Hunting and fishing economy.
Gufkral (Kashmir,): Agriculture and Domestication.
Another place with bone implements is chirand near Patna.
Only in burzahom domesticated dogs buried with his master in graves.
Neolithic settlers were earliest farming communities.
They produced ragi and horse gram (kulathi).
They lived in house made of mud and reed.
People of mehargarh were more advanced:lived in house of mud brick.
Cultivation: needed pots to store.
cooking, eating, drinking (pottery).
In piklihal cattler herders like goat, cattle,and sheep etc.

The various sites of Neolithic period