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Unit-4 Origin Of Culture And Domestication Of Animals

This Unit deals with the origins of agriculture and beginnings of domestication of animals before the stage when metals came to be used.

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What do the finds of pottery, ground tools and mud hutments, etc. indicate in terms of development in human society?

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Written on Jun 25, 2019 6:00:00 PM

The faint traces of dwellings, crude handmade pale reddish brown pottery with slipped outer surface, blade tools of chert and ground stone tools found at Nagarjunakonda, demonstrate that the people had only rudimentary knowledge of cultivation. Probably they did not domesticate animals. ware fabric. However, Lapidary art and domestication of animals are the pew features. Now the micro-liths were made of quartz crystals. In Phase-III (datable to around 1500 B.C.) grey ware pottery, is predominant. The red ware and short blade industry of quartz crystals of Phase-II continued into this phase. Neolithic tools of various types are also found in this phase. These indicate greater practice of agriculture with food gathering and hunting now assuming a subsidiary rote.