In this article we will discuss about the history of Palaeolithic culture. Men are messy beings. Nearly 3 million years ago our ancestors began littering the African landscape with stone tools and gnawed bones. From the first tools to today's indestructible glass bottles is the archaeological record. The retrieved material needs to be classified into types and styles on the [...]
In this article we will discuss about the history of Chalcolithic culture. One of the earliest evidence of copper extraction is seen in the Zagros Mountains in Iraq around 6000 B.C. These scattered settlements of metal users come down to the Euphrates and Tigris delta by 5000 B.C. The area between these two rivers occupying nearly 400,000 square kilometers is [...]
Neolithic marks a cultural stage where man takes to production economy and evolves special tools to suit this economic behaviour. Along with these tools that he evolves he has to by necessity modify his social behaviour to large extent in order to suit the sedentism required when one has to wait for a harvest. Thus, a proper peasant community emerges [...]