What is Pre history? Prehistory is referred to that phase of human history when earth was still taking shape and the life started evolving first in organic then in animals. Prehistory may also be considered as the history of humans when man started evolving. It is also the history of early man's evolution its struggle for survival in adverse environments, from there to hunting to food gathering then cattle herding and finally to cultivation.
Pre-History cannot be only referred to India in particular, in fact pre history is considered same for man. By the Radio carbon dating method earth is considered to be around 4500 million years old. When earth formed the life appeared on earth in form of algae or seaweed that is around 2000 million years ago, and the evolution of man started around 4 mya. The earliest excavated human skeletons were from African Continent particularly from the rift valley (where even today the flora and fauna is different from rest of the world).It is generally believed by scholars that they earliest man that walked the earth was this bow-legged ape-man and it was categorized as Australopithecine Africans. Another skeleton that of a female nick-named as "Lucy" which is estimated to be around 3.5 million years old. The earth's history is divided into many phases in which the most important is the Quarternary period in the last phase of this period life evolved. It may also be considered as the beginning of prehistory. This period is further divided into Pleistocene(2 mya to 10000 bp) and Holocene (10000 bp to present).Pleistocene marks the beginning of human era.
Earlier the humans lived in caves, several caves have been discovered bearing the extinction on humans for living purposes. These caves have been found all over the world especially in the African continent and the Asian continent .Europe have not been the place where the earliest life evolved nor any human remains where found there dating back as it was with Africa. The main reason for that would be at the time of evolution of life Europe was covered under huge Ice sheets primarily where the last glaciation period ended. The earlier humans survived on whatever food they got through hunting, tools for hunting purposes have also been discovered. Then slowly as the human race was evolving there were also changes in their living .Now we can imagine from little bit of this knowledge that how humans survived then and how the earth changed with it how life changed.
Stay tuned I will get back with more interesting knowledge on human evolution in imagine prehistory 2.
Pre-History cannot be only referred to India in particular, in fact pre history is considered same for man. By the Radio carbon dating method earth is considered to be around 4500 million years old. When earth formed the life appeared on earth in form of algae or seaweed that is around 2000 million years ago, and the evolution of man started around 4 mya. The earliest excavated human skeletons were from African Continent particularly from the rift valley (where even today the flora and fauna is different from rest of the world).It is generally believed by scholars that they earliest man that walked the earth was this bow-legged ape-man and it was categorized as Australopithecine Africans. Another skeleton that of a female nick-named as "Lucy" which is estimated to be around 3.5 million years old. The earth's history is divided into many phases in which the most important is the Quarternary period in the last phase of this period life evolved. It may also be considered as the beginning of prehistory. This period is further divided into Pleistocene(2 mya to 10000 bp) and Holocene (10000 bp to present).Pleistocene marks the beginning of human era.
Earlier the humans lived in caves, several caves have been discovered bearing the extinction on humans for living purposes. These caves have been found all over the world especially in the African continent and the Asian continent .Europe have not been the place where the earliest life evolved nor any human remains where found there dating back as it was with Africa. The main reason for that would be at the time of evolution of life Europe was covered under huge Ice sheets primarily where the last glaciation period ended. The earlier humans survived on whatever food they got through hunting, tools for hunting purposes have also been discovered. Then slowly as the human race was evolving there were also changes in their living .Now we can imagine from little bit of this knowledge that how humans survived then and how the earth changed with it how life changed.
Stay tuned I will get back with more interesting knowledge on human evolution in imagine prehistory 2.
