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Food gathering and hunting were the main occupations of the people of this phase and Palaeolithic men learnt to use animal skins for wrapping their dead bodies.In India, the Palaeolithic Age developed in the Pleistocene period or the Ice Age and was spread in practically all parts of India except the alluvial parts of Ganga and Indus.The greatest achievement of the earliest man could be traced to his learning as to how to make a fist hatchet, the spear and the fire. The Palaeolithic Age commenced from the time when the earliest man learnt the art of making stone tools.Paleolothic (early or Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) and Neolithic 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. humans used only stone tools for different purposes. From their first appearance to around 3000 B.C.Earliest traces of human activity in India go back to the second Inter-Glacial period between 400,000 and 200,000 B.C.

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.

Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s efforts in 1921, resulted in our knowledge of the entire pre historic culture sequence of India, putting India fi rmly on the world map of prehistory.

These early efforts could not place India on the prehistoric map of the world.

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.

Knives and arrow heads) in 1842 at a place called Lingsugur in Karnataka. Primrose rediscoverd Indian pre-history by discovering prehistoric implements (stone And so is the word pre-history it was fi rst used by M.

The idea of pre-history is barely 200 years old.