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Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age

The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age was a transitional period between 10,000-6,000 BC. Remains from this period have been found in sites across India, including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Mesolithic people lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle but began shifting to smaller game hunting and fishing. They also started using bows and arrows and settling in areas for longer periods, beginning practices like domesticating animals, horticulture, and primitive cultivation.

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Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age

The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age was a transitional period between 10,000-6,000 BC. Remains from this period have been found in sites across India, including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Mesolithic people lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle but began shifting to smaller game hunting and fishing. They also started using bows and arrows and settling in areas for longer periods, beginning practices like domesticating animals, horticulture, and primitive cultivation.

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Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age

The next stage of human life is called Mesolithic or Middle


Stone Age which falls roughly from 10000 B.C. to 6000 B.C. It
was the transitional phase between the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic
Age. Mesolithic remains are found in Langhanj in Gujarat, Adamgarh
in Madhya Pradesh and also in some places of Rajasthan, Utter
Pradesh and Bihar. The paintings and engravings found at the rock
shelters give an idea about the social life and economic activities of
Mesolithic people. In the sites of Mesolithic Age, a different type of
stone tools is found. These are tiny stone artifacts, often not more
than five centimeters in size, and therefore called microliths. The
hunting-gathering pattern of life continued during this period.
However, there seems to have been a shift from big animal hunting
to small animal hunting and fishing. The use of bow and arrow also
began during this period. Also, there began a tendency to settle for
longer periods in an area. Therefore, domestication of animals,
horticulture and primitive cultivation started. Animal bones are found
in these sites and these include dog, deer, boar and ostrich.
Occasionally, burials of the dead along with some microliths and
shells seem to have been practiced.

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