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The Palaeolithic Age was the earliest and longest phase of human prehistory in the Indian subcontinent. Stone tools and archaeological sites reveal how hunting-gathering communities adapted to changing environments.
The Mesolithic Age marked an important phase between Palaeolithic hunting traditions and later food-producing communities. Microlithic tools, changing subsistence patterns and rock paintings—especially at Bhimbetka—provide valuable evidence of life during this period.
The Neolithic phase brought a major transformation in human life as communities increasingly cultivated crops, domesticated animals and lived in more settled habitations. Archaeological sites across the subcontinent reveal that this change occurred differently in different regions.
The first cities of the Indian subcontinent did not appear suddenly. Over thousands of years, hunting and gathering, farming, settled villages, craft production and growing trade networks gradually created the conditions for Harappan urbanization.
Chalcolithic communities used both stone and copper tools and lived in regional farming settlements across much of the Indian subcontinent. Their pottery, agriculture, houses, burials and craft traditions reveal a diverse world between the Neolithic and the wider spread of iron.
Mehrgarh is one of the most important early farming sites of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. Its archaeological remains reveal the gradual development of cultivation, animal domestication, village life, craft production and long-distance exchange.
