INDIAN PRE HISTORY
• The idea of pre-history is barely 200 years old. And so
is the word pre-history; it was first used by M. Tournal in
1833.
• Dr. Primrose rediscoverd Indian pre-history by
discovering prehistoric implements (stone knives and
arrow heads) in 1842 at a place called Lingsugur in
Karnataka.
• Robert Bruce was another person who enriched our
knowledge about Indian prehistory when he discovered
a large number of prehistoric sites in South India and collected Stone Age artifacts.
• These early efforts could not place India on the prehistoric map of the world.
• Sir Mortimer Wheeler's efforts in 1921, resulted in our knowledge of the entire pre historic
culture sequence of India, putting India firmly on the world map of prehistory.
• As regards the early man; no fossils of early man have been found in the entire subcontinent,
but their presence is indicated by stone tools dated around 250,000 BC. Earliest traces of
human activity in India go back to the second Inter-Glacial period between 400,000 and
200,000 B.C.
• From their first appearance to around 3000 B.C. humans used only stone tools for different
purposes. Based on the tool mining traditions, this period is therefore known as the Stone Age
and the entire Stone Age culture has been divided into 3 main stages i.e. Paleolothic (early or
Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) and Neolithic (New Stone
, <- NARMADA MEN
• The idea of pre-history is barely 200 years old. And so
is the word pre-history; it was first used by M. Tournal in
1833.
• Dr. Primrose rediscoverd Indian pre-history by
discovering prehistoric implements (stone knives and
arrow heads) in 1842 at a place called Lingsugur in
Karnataka.
• Robert Bruce was another person who enriched our
knowledge about Indian prehistory when he discovered
a large number of prehistoric sites in South India and collected Stone Age artifacts.
• These early efforts could not place India on the prehistoric map of the world.
• Sir Mortimer Wheeler's efforts in 1921, resulted in our knowledge of the entire pre historic
culture sequence of India, putting India firmly on the world map of prehistory.
• As regards the early man; no fossils of early man have been found in the entire subcontinent,
but their presence is indicated by stone tools dated around 250,000 BC. Earliest traces of
human activity in India go back to the second Inter-Glacial period between 400,000 and
200,000 B.C.
• From their first appearance to around 3000 B.C. humans used only stone tools for different
purposes. Based on the tool mining traditions, this period is therefore known as the Stone Age
and the entire Stone Age culture has been divided into 3 main stages i.e. Paleolothic (early or
Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) and Neolithic (New Stone
, <- NARMADA MEN
