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The Palaeolithic Period which is also known as “The Old Stone Age”. The Palaeolithic period was an ancient cultural or old traditional period. The experts believe that this was the phase of human evolution. The main characteristics of this period is the use of primitive chipped stone tools.
We will go through the characteristics along with the phases of the Palaeolithic age. So, let be connect with the article and keep a-step ahead from your competitors.
As per study and researches the experts believe that the Palaeolithic Period which is also known as the Old Stone Age, might be the first and the oldest prehistoric culture. The term Palaeolithic is derived from the Greek words palaios, which means “ancient,” and lithos, which means “stone.”
The experts believe that the Palaeolithic period is roughly in between from 30,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE. The Palaeolithic Age or the Old Stone Age produced the first achievements in human inventiveness. It was known by the tools and artifacts discovered in the excavations.
The lack of awareness about Palaeolithic human traditions and culture is due to a lack of written documents from this time. We only know the information which come from archaeological surveys, cultural analogies and some modern hunter-gatherer communities.
The experts believe that the Palaeolithic period lasted until the ice melted. And that was the period when farming and the use of metals became widespread. The experts believe that there were three phases in the Palaeolithic age. Let us trace the different phases in the Palaeolithic age one by one.
Three Phases of the Palaeolithic Age –
The three subdivisions of the Palaeolithic Age are as follows
01) Lower Palaeolithic Period
02) Middle Palaeolithic Period
03) Upper Palaeolithic Period
Let us discuss in short about the different phases in the Palaeolithic age. A separate article in details is available on clickable link of the article.
Some characteristics of Lower Palaeolithic Period
01) The experts believe that the discovered stone tools are the evidence that the Lower Palaeolithic Period is the first period of stone age because it was the first time where the stone tools are used.
02) Some part of the collection of the basic stone tools are known as Oldowan tools because it was unearthed from an African location.
03) The experts found that the Choppers and the scrapers were the two major types of stone tools used during this period.
04) After analyzing the discovered stone tools the experts believe that the humans of this period may probably used hand axes and sharp edged stone made tools to kill animals.
05) The experts believe that the discovery of fire was a significant discovery for all of humanity because initially the humans discovered and used fire during the Lower Palaeolithic Period.
06) The Palaeolithic stone tools like hand-axes and hard sharp edged stone tools indicates that the human of this period are meat eater.
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Some characteristics of Middle Palaeolithic Period
01) The experts believe that an early form of human who lived between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago, belongs to the Middle Palaeolithic and belongs to Mousterian culture which is typically connected with Neanderthal man.
02) The experts believe that the remains of Neanderthal are the evidence of the use of the caves and frequently use of fire.
03) As per the evidences the experts believe that the Neanderthals were the hunters and they belongs to prehistoric mammalian class or they were mammals.
04) The evidences of their cultural relics have been discovered primarily in Europe, but it discovered in North Africa, Palestine, and Siberia also.
05) The experts believe that the human of this period might be know how to make used bone made utensils and other tools.
06) The experts believe that the human of that period used bone made needles to sew the animal skins and furs to cover their body.
07) A prehistoric religion may have been practiced since the deceased were decorated before burial.
08) The experts believe that the human of this period were also meat-eater as our Ancient ancestors did, but there is also evidence to preserve the excess of the hunting for future use.
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Some characteristics of Upper Palaeolithic Period
01) The experts believe that the world was in a state of turmoil throughout the Upper Palaeolithic.
02) Some of the expert believe that at about 33000 year ago the Neanderthals (an extinct group of archaic humans) were vanished due to pushed out from Europe.
03) Some of experts believe that the idea of a “creative explosion” of human behavior and evolution has given way to knowledge of a lengthy history.
04) The experts believe that there is many things which is yet to explore during the phases of the Upper Palaeolithic before the humans left Africa.
05) The discovered tools of the Upper Palaeolithic period were predominantly blade-based technology.
06) The experts found that the blades of the stone objects are as long as they are wide.
07) The experts believe that these big and heavy tool like object might be used to develop a staggering number of formal tools.
08) People lived in shelters with the semi-subterranean floor, huts, and windbreaks during the Upper Palaeolithic period.
09) The experts found that some of shelters were made of mammoth bone also.
10) During the study of Upper Palaeolithic period the experts found that the hunting of the animals were selected by choices or by season or according to the selective butchery they had.
11) Food storage may have been performed in some regions based on the occurrence of mass animal slaughter on occasion.
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Conclusion of the story
01) The Palaeolithic Age lasted from 500,000 years ago to 10000 BC, when the first tool-making Homo erectus found.
02) The lower Palaeolithic, Middle Palaeolithic, and Upper Palaeolithic ages are separated into three periods.
03) The division into phases is based on the characteristic and technology at the time of the finer stone tools.
04) Furthermore the division might be occur due to several circumstantial conditions such as time lag, weather vagaries, huge distances, different geographical and physical obstacles.
05) With the conclusion at around 10000 BC the Palaeolithic era might be also came to an end with the end of Ice Age.
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