.Stone Age
Some of the earliest relics of Stone Age man in the subcontinent are found in the Soan Valley of the Potohar region near Rawalpindi, with a probable antiquity of about 500,000 years. No human skeleton of such antiquity has yet been discovered in the area, but the crude stone implements recovered from the terraces of the Soan carry the saga of human toil and labor in this part of the world to the inter- glacial period. These Stone Age men fashioned their implements in a sufficiently homogeneous way to justify their grouping in terms of a culture called the Soan Culture. Predominantly an agricultural region, its inhabitants learned to tame and husband animals and cultivate crops some 9,000 years ago.
Farming villages dating from 6000 BC have been excavated in Baluchistan, the North West Frontier Province and Punjab. About 3000 BC, amidst the rugged wind-swept valleys and foothills of
Baluchistan, small village communities developed and began to take the first hesitant steps towards civilization. Mehrgarh in Balochistan was a developed settlement and an important Neolithic site.
These pre-historic men established their settlements, both as herdsmen and as farmers, in the valley
plains with their cattle and cultivated barley and other crops. Here one finds a more continuous story of human activity, though still in the Stone Age.
Farming villages dating from 6000 BC have been excavated in Baluchistan, the North West Frontier Province and Punjab. About 3000 BC, amidst the rugged wind-swept valleys and foothills of
Baluchistan, small village communities developed and began to take the first hesitant steps towards civilization. Mehrgarh in Balochistan was a developed settlement and an important Neolithic site.
These pre-historic men established their settlements, both as herdsmen and as farmers, in the valley
plains with their cattle and cultivated barley and other crops. Here one finds a more continuous story of human activity, though still in the Stone Age.
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