The History of India

1.500.000- Archaeology has discovered the oldest tools made according to Achelense industry in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent. 500.000- Remains of Homo erectus in Hathnora, in the valley of the Narmada River, central region of India. The Soan River Valley is the oldest archaeological site in India where traces of Homo erectus have been discovered. 75.000- Archaeology discovers the oldest signs of Homo sapiens on the subcontinent. 52.000-India: Asteroid impact at Lonar opens up a 2km crater. 30.000-Madhya Pradesh: first cave paintings in Bhinbetka. 15.500- Southwest Asia: the end of the last ice age brings a climatic inversion towards more warmth and humidity. It is the starting point of a phase of human development called the Mesolithic, characterized by regional diversity that will lead to the formation of new types of agricultural and livestock societies. The change is in principle not so much due to technological development as to the climate itself, to that increase in temperature that causes an extension of the areas with resources and allows the expansion of hunter-gatherer groups to previously unsettled areas. 12.000- Rock Art: The caves of the Bhinbetka shelter, near Bhopal, present images in red and green of rhinoceroses, tigers and bulls, as well as other hunting scenes in which the use of bows is recorded. 9.000- In India and Persia, the cultivation of onions begins and the chicken and pigeon are domesticated. From this period are the oldest records of beekeeping. First semi-permanent settlements in the Bhinbetka rock shelters in the territory of Madhya Pradesh. 7500- Neolithic settlement of Bhirrana in Haryana 7000- Edakkal Caves: petroglyphs indicating the presence of Neolithic groups in Kerala. 6750- In Pakistan and India, the incipient agriculture of the Indus valley and the Kachi plain is spreading. 6000- Neolithic settlement of Mehrgarh in Baluchistan: wheat and barley farming, goat and sheep rearing, village of mud huts, bone and stone tools have been found. 5600 ...