Pre-historic Age – With reference to Tamil Nadu

• Old Stone Age
  
• New Stone Age
  
• Metal Age
  
• Megalithic Age
  

Old Stone Age:

• Lasted up to 10000 B.C
  
• Quartz(hard rock) for hunting animals
  
• ROBERT BRUTE FORCE discovered at Pallavaram, then at Kancheepuram dist, vellore, Thiruvallur
  
• Simple hand axe – found at Koratalayar, Chennai & Vada madurai
  
• Life style
  
  • Nomadic – cave dwelling
    
  • Food gatherers
    
  • NO cultivation, NO pottery, NO dress
    
  • Fire – YES – to scare animals and roast flesh
    
  • Paintings of hunting
    
  • NO God
    

New Stone Age:

• Trap rock – polished & sharpened rock
  
• Lifestyle
  
  • Sheltered living – clay huts, thatched house
    
  • Agriculture – rice, millets – FOOD PRODUCERS
    
  • DISCOVERED WHEEL – pottery – Tirunelveli, Salem, pudukkotai, trichy (Burial urns, water pots, vessels)
    
  • Weaving – cotton clothes, dyed clothes
    
  • Worshipped the dead – Burial urns found with food
    

Metal Age:

• COPPER – first known
  
• North India – Copper age, South India – Iron Age
  
• Agriculture improved, paddy cultivated with irrigation
  

Megalithic Age:

• Megalith means Burial monuments – Circular Tombs - dead body in black & red pot along with tools
  
• Dist of kanchipuram, vellore, tiruvannamalai, cuddalore, trichy, pudukottai
  
• Urn burial without circular tomb  - Adhichanallur, Tirunelveli – Bronze and iron tools in tomb
  
• Vel, Alagu and Trident found – indicative of LORD MURUGA worship

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