Stone Age Sites in Pakistan
Rafi Samad
Well before the anatomically modern human beings, referred to in science as the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, emerged on our planet, the early human species, referred to as hominids, were roaming around Ancient Pakistan.
Evidence of existence of these homonids is provided by certain types of stones, which have been recovered cheap designer sunglasses for women in large numbers from various sites. Scientists believe that these stones, which were intentionally chipped several times in more than one direction, were used by the homonids as weapons and tools for defence, and for hunting animals and scraping their hides and bones.
Sites belonging to different periods in various regions of Pakistan reveal a continuous improvement in the techniques used for making stone tools and implements. These sites also provide useful sociological information pertaining to developing lifestyles of the hominids, their ability to make use of hides and bones of animals and wood to build shelters and clothing for themselves.
Earliest Stone tools from Rewat
In the outskirts of Rewat, deep down on a water-borne ravine scientists have found 23 pieces of hard limestone called quartzite, which had been deliberately struck to achieve sharp and pointed ends. Scientific investigations have revealed that these stones belong to a period more than two million years before present, and they were probably used by our ancestors for chopping prada sunglasses 2012 and scraping activities.Rewat is located near the basin of the Soan River, which has its source in the Murree Hills and flows past the outskirts of Rawalpindi and Pindigheb before joining the Indus River near the town of Kalabagh. From times immemorial the region around Rewat offered a congenial environment for food resources for the hunters and gatherers in the shape of wild life, berries and food grains. Over a period of two million years, the less resistant materials used by the early humans would have been destroyed. However, the quartzite tools devised by them to eke out a living, have survived to tell the story of these early human species.
The selection of quartzite, a hard and compact rock for making stone implements, indicates that the human species who devised them, had reached a stage of intellectual development, which enabled them to recognize the qualities required in the basic material for making tools. These human species probably belonged to the group of early hominids known as Homo habilis or handy dior sunglasses 2012 men ? men, who used hand tools to meet their everyday requirements.
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