I. 1.8.b Broad Outlines of Prehistoric cultures

Broad outlines of pre-historic cultures

prehistoric culture

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 bow and arrow, fish – basket, boats			Tribes and	afterlife first
						appears in the Upper
					bands	Paleolithic, marked by the appearance of burial rituals and ancestor worship. Priests and sanctuary servants appear in the
	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
					in some Neolithic societies the end of the period	prehistory.
Bronze Age		Copper and bronze tools, potter’s wheel	Agriculture, cattle breeding.
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 bow and arrow, fish – basket, boats			Tribes and	afterlife first
						appears in the Upper
					bands	Paleolithic, marked by the appearance of burial rituals and ancestor worship. Priests and sanctuary servants appear in the
	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
					in some Neolithic societies the end of the period	prehistory.
Bronze Age		Copper and bronze tools, potter’s wheel	Agriculture, cattle breeding.
Iron Age		Iron tools	agriculture, craft, trade	Formation of cities	Formation of states