Uttarakhand General Knowledge Course in English Uttarakhand in Stone Age Period

Stone age can be divided into three parts :

⦿ Old stone age or Paleolithic: till 10000 BCE
⦿ Middle stone age of Mesolithic: 10000-7000 BCE
⦿ New stone age or Neolithic: 7000-3000 BCE

* Stone age also known as Prehistory and Pre-Metal Phase.

Old stone age

The Old stone age was the time when humans were exclusively hunters.

They roamed around in small groups in search of food and women, children, searched for edible roots, fruits, other plant products, and eggs.

Old stone age is further classified in three periods :

Lower Paleolithic
Middle Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic.

🖊 Uttarakhand has seen human habitation since the oldest times i.e Lower Paleolithic age.

🖊 Humans of the stone age required certain thìngs to Survive that could be easily found in foothills of Uttarakhand.

🖊 The small streams and rivers of the Himalayan foothills thus afforded them all the requirernontt of their lives.

🖊 The presence of eary humans in Uttarakhand is also attested by the various archaeological finds in the state.

🖊 Lower Paleolithic Age have been found near Kalsi on the banks of Yamuna.

🖊 Apart from Kalsi, tools from that age are also found in Srinagar on the banks of Alakananda.

🖊 In western Ramganga valley in Almora district.

🖊 In Nainital district at a place called Khutani Nala Tools from the middle Palaeolithic age have also been found in Uttarakhand near Srinagar.

🖊 It must be noted that all such tools are made of quartzite.

🖊 For the Neolithic age, no evidence has been found in Uttarakhand.

🖊 Rock shelters in Uttarakhand also attest to the habitation by humans in the stone age, specially paleolithic and mesolithic age.

🖊 Rock shelters are found in both Kumaun and Garhwal regions.

🖊 The evidences of early humans in these shelters are the paintings made by them on walls of such shelters.

🖊 In Kumauni and Garhali languages, a rock cave is called “Udyar.

🖊 The first painted rock shelter to be explored professionally in Uttarakhand was the one called Lakhu-Udyar. It is in Almora district and on the right bank of the Suyal river.

🖊 In Chamoli dist. these “Udyar” also found One is the “Gwarkhya-Udyar” near village Dungri in Alakananda valley and second “Kimni village” in Pinder valley.

✍ Caves, Articles and Paintings belonging to Stone age :- 

In Chamoli :

Gorkhya Udiyar (Cave) : 

🖊 Rakesh Bhatt discovered this cave in Chamoli. 

🖊 This cave situated on the side of Alaknanda River in “Dungri” Village.

🖊  From this cave total 41 pictures has been discovered, out of which 8 pictures are of animals and human images.

🖊 The main theme of the pictures are hunting of animals.   

Kimni Village

🖊 This site situated in the side of Pinder Rvr Valle near “Tharali”

🖊 Found White color picture of weapons and animals.

 

In Almora :

Naula-Jainal Village 

🖊 Situated on the side of west Ramganga river valley.

🖊 Graveyard is discovered from this place.

🖊 This Place was discovered by Yashodhar Mathpal.

Malari Village

🖊 In 1983 and 2001, it was surveyed by Garwal University.    

🖊 During the survey, a animal skeleton was discovered which was later on  identified as Zoba Animal.

🖊 5.2 Kg of Gold Mask.

ukpsc exam malari gold mask

 

 

 

 

 

🖊Photo of Monal.