{"id":339156,"date":"2025-06-02T14:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=339156"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:07:30","slug":"neolithic-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/neolithic-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Neolithic age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Archaeological Survey of India recently discovered one of <strong>first rock grooves in Kanniyakumari district<\/strong> which were created during the neolithic age. <strong>Neolithic age<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-339244 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Neolithic-age.png?resize=505%2C335&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Neolithic age\" width=\"505\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Neolithic-age.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Neolithic-age.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Neolithic-age.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Neolithic-age.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Neolithic age<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The term Neolithic has been derived from <strong>two Latin words<\/strong>. \u2018<strong>Neo\u2019 meaning New<\/strong> and \u2018<strong>lithic\u2019<\/strong> meaning <strong>stone<\/strong>, hence Neolithic period is also known as <strong>New Stone Age<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Neolithic Age in India is generally <strong>dated between 7000 BCE and 1000 BCE<\/strong>, though this varies regionally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Characteristics of this period<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agriculture transition and domestication of animals:<\/strong> People began domesticating animals, cultivating <strong>crops<\/strong> such as wheat, barley, rice, millets, lentils, ragi, and cotton.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Permanent settlements:<\/strong> This period saw a transition from <strong>nomadic lifestyles to settled village<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tool advancement:<\/strong> Use of <strong>polished stone tools<\/strong>, including axes and sickles, indicating technological progress; was seen in the period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pottery:<\/strong> Development of <strong>handmade and wheel-turned pottery<\/strong>, often decorated, reflecting artistic expression.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arts and crafts:<\/strong> Beads made of semi-precious stones, terracotta figurines (including images of cattle and mother goddesses), and decorated pottery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social behaviour:<\/strong> Likely tribal, with nuclear families indicated by small house sizes.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Burial practices<\/strong> included burying the <strong>dead within houses<\/strong>, and sometimes animal burials, suggesting rituals and <strong>ancestor worship<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Belief systems:<\/strong> Possible worship of <strong>natural forces and fertility cults<\/strong>, as suggested by terracotta images and burial customs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Important Neoithic sites of India<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>North-western India:<\/strong> The Neolithic culture of the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent at <strong>Mehrgarh<\/strong> has produced the earliest evidence of <strong>plant and animal domestication<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>North India:<\/strong> <strong>Kashmir<\/strong> Neolithic sites have evidence of <strong>pit dwellings (Burzahom, Gufkral)<\/strong>. These sites show contacts with the Harappan sites and the cultures of East Asia and West Asia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vindhyan Hills, the Belan and the Ganga River Valleys<\/strong>: The Belan valley Neolithic sites have <strong>cord-marked pottery<\/strong> and produced evidence for <strong>transition from hunting gathering to agriculture. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>North-eastern India:<\/strong> The sites of <strong>eastern and north-Eastern India<\/strong> show traits of <strong>shouldered axes<\/strong> often noticed in Southeast Asia. <strong>Marakdola, Daojali Hading and Sarutaru<\/strong> are the Neolithic sites of Assam region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Central-eastern region:<\/strong> The eastern Indian Neolithic sites have evidence of <strong>shouldered axes, pointed-butt celts, and chisels.<\/strong> <strong>Birbhanpur, Kuchai, Golbaisasan and Sankarjang<\/strong> are some of the important Neolithic sites of this region of West Bengal and Odisha.<\/li>\n<li><strong>South India:<\/strong> The Neolithic sites of South India have <strong>ash mounds<\/strong> in the early stages and evidence of plant and <strong>animal domestication<\/strong> is found.\n<ul>\n<li>Neolithic grooves were found in parts of <strong>Tamil Nadu<\/strong> such as <strong>Kanniyakumari, Krishnagiri, Tiruvannamalai and Villupuram<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Archaeological Survey of India recently discovered one of first rock grooves in Kanniyakumari district which were created during the neolithic age. Neolithic age About Neolithic age The term Neolithic has been derived from two Latin words. \u2018Neo\u2019 meaning New and \u2018lithic\u2019 meaning stone, hence Neolithic period is also known as New Stone Age.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/neolithic-age\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neolithic age<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":339244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-339156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Neolithic-age.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}