পুরা প্রস্তর যুগ

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Neanderthal hunter (American Museum of Natural History)

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Age	Period	Tools	Economy	Dwelling Sites	Society	Religion
প্রস্তর যুগ	Paleolithic	Handmade tools and objects found in nature – cudgel, club, sharpened stone, chopper, handaxe, scraper, spear, Bow and arrow, harpoon, needle, scratch awl	Hunting and gathering	Mobile lifestyle – caves, huts, tooth or skin hovels, mostly by rivers and lakes	A band of edible-plant gatherers and hunters (25-100 people)	Evidence for belief in the afterlife first appears in the Middle Paleolithic or Upper Paleolithic, marked by the appearance of burial rituals and ancestor worship. Priests and sanctuary servants appear in the prehistory.
	Mesolithic (known as the Epipalaeolithic in areas not effected by the Ice Age (such as Africa))	Handmade tools and objects found in nature – bow and arrow, fish – basket, boats			Tribes and Bands
	Neolithic	Handmade tools and objects found in nature – chisel, hoe, plough, yoke, reaping-hook, grain pourer, barley, loom, earthenware (pottery) and weapons	agriculture Gathering, hunting, fishing and domestication	Farmsteads during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age Formation of cities during the Bronze Age	Tribes and the formation of chiefdoms in some Neolithic societies at the end of the Neolithic period' States and chiefdoms during the Bronze Age.
ব্রোঞ্জ যুগ		Copper and bronze tools, potter's wheel	Agriculture – cattle – breeding, agriculture, craft, trade
লৌহ যুগ		Iron tools

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