Early Human and Prehistoric Cultures

The domestication of horses significantly increased the mobility of pastoralist societies, allowing them to traverse greater distances and manage larger herds.

Homo Sapiens remained omnivores throughout their migration and development; they did not evolve into herbivores.

The man evolved from cave man to homo sapiens. The various ages from stone age to present time define the evolution of humans. Starting from Astro Pythicus , Rama Pythicus, Homo Erectus, Neanderthal Man, Homo Sapiens

Mesolithic Period was associated with the origin of fire. It is also called Middle Stone Age, ancient cultural stage that existed between the Paleolithic Period, with its chipped stone tools and the Neolithic Period with its polished stone tools.

The Neolithic age was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC. It was associated with the beginning of agriculture and cattle raring. the Neolithic revolution was the first agricultural revolution. It was gradual change from nomadic hunting and gathering communities and bands to agriculture and settlement.

A totem (Ojibwe doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe. It is a natural object, plant or animal that is inherited by members of a clan or family as their spiritual emblem. Hence, Option A is correct. Among the rest, a minute shaped flint, typically part of a composite tool such as a spear. Jhum or Jhoom cultivation is a local name for slash and burn agriculture practiced by the tribal groups in the northeastern states of India like Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland and also in the districts of Bangladesh like Khagrachari and Sylhet. Megalithic means relating to or denoting prehistoric monuments made of or containing large stones. Hence, these are incorrect. 

Cro-Magnon man is an early Homo sapiens  that lived about 40,000 years ago. Skeletal remains and associated artifacts of the Aurignacian culture were first found in 1868 in Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France.

Following features was not the feature of Neolithic age:-

• Man was merely a food gatherer.
• The age was associated with the origin of usage of fire.

The remains of one of the most sophisticated prehis toric native civilizations north of Mexico are pre served at Cahokia, Illinois. The people who lived at this site were called the Mound Builders.

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The main tool types of Mesolithic tools  are backed blades, obliquely truncated blades, points, crescents, triangles and trapezes. Some of the microliths were used as components of spearheads, arrowheads, knives, sickles, harpoons and daggers. They were fitted into grooves in bone, wood and reed shafts and joined together by natural adhesives like gum and resin

The Mesopotamians were the first to make glassware. They were the first people in the world to issue receipts and bills in business transactions.  The Sumerians valued gold, copper and gems, rode in wheeled chariots, and used the mules to carry goods.

Pottery-making as technique emerged first in the Neolithic age.  It is the craft of making ceramic material into pots or potterywares using mud. It is one of the oldest human inventions, originating before the Neolithic period. Neolithic pottery have been found in places such as Jomon japan, the Russian Far East, Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.

Bhimbetka valleys is know for having a continuous succession of Paleolithic painting of different periods. These are an archaeological site of the Paleolithic, exhibiting the earliest traces of human life on the Indian Subcontinent and thus the beginning of the Indian Stone Age.