Broad outlines of pre-historic cultures
Age | Period | Tools | Economy | Dwelling | Society | Religion | |
Stone
Age |
Paleolithic | Handmade tools and objects found in nature – club, sharpened stone, chopper, hand axe, scraper, spear, harpoon, needle, scratch awl |
Hunting and gathering | Mobile lifestyle caves, huts, tooth or skin hovels, mostly by rivers and lakes |
A. band of
edible-plant gatherers and hunters (25-100. people) |
Evidence for
belief in the |
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Mesolithic | Handmade tools and objects found in nature |
Tribes and | afterlife first | ||||
appears in the Upper |
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bands | Paleolithic, marked by the appearance of burial rituals and ancestor worship. Priests |
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Neolithic | Handmade tools and objects found in nature – chisel, hoe, plough, yoke, reaping-hook, grain pourer, barley, loom, earthenware (pottery) and weapons |
Neolithic Revolution transition to agriculture. Gathering, hunting, fishing and domestication |
Farmsteads | Tribes and
fprmatiqn_of_ chiefdoms |
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in some
Neolithic |
prehistory. | ||||||
Bronze Age | Copper and bronze tools, potter’s wheel |
Agriculture, cattle
breeding. |
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Iron Age | Iron tools | agriculture, craft, trade | Formation of cities |
Formation of states |
Age | Period | Tools | Economy | Dwelling | Society | Religion | |
Stone
Age |
Paleolithic | Handmade tools and objects found in nature – club, sharpened stone, chopper, hand axe, scraper, spear, harpoon, needle, scratch awl |
Hunting and gathering | Mobile lifestyle caves, huts, tooth or skin hovels, mostly by rivers and lakes |
A. band of
edible-plant gatherers and hunters (25-100. people) |
Evidence for
belief in the |
|
Mesolithic | Handmade tools and objects found in nature |
Tribes and | afterlife first | ||||
appears in the Upper |
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bands | Paleolithic, marked by the appearance of burial rituals and ancestor worship. Priests |
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Neolithic | Handmade tools and objects found in nature – chisel, hoe, plough, yoke, reaping-hook, grain pourer, barley, loom, earthenware (pottery) and weapons |
Neolithic Revolution transition to agriculture. Gathering, hunting, fishing and domestication |
Farmsteads | Tribes and
fprmatiqn_of_ chiefdoms |
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in some
Neolithic |
prehistory. | ||||||
Bronze Age | Copper and bronze tools, potter’s wheel |
Agriculture, cattle
breeding. |
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Iron Age | Iron tools | agriculture, craft, trade | Formation of cities |
Formation of states |