| යුගය
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කාලපරිච්ඡේදය
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මෙවලම්
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ආර්ථිකය
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වාසස්ථාන
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සමාජය
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ආගම්
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ශිලා යුගය
(3.4 mya – 2000 BC)
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Paleolithic
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Handmade tools and objects found in nature – cudgel, club, sharpened stone, chopper, handaxe, scraper, spear, harpoon, needle, scratch awl. In general stone tools of Modes I–IV.
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Hunting and gathering
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Mobile lifestyle – caves, huts, tusk/bone or skin hovels, mostly by rivers and lakes
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A band of edible-plant gatherers and hunters (25–100 people)
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Evidence for belief in the afterlife first appears in the Upper Palaeolithic, marked by the appearance of burial rituals and ancestor worship. Shamans, priests and sanctuary servants appear in the prehistory.
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| Mesolithic (other name epipalaeolithic)
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Mode V tools employed in composite devices – harpoon, bow and arrow. Other devices such as fishing baskets, boats
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Intensive hunting and gathering, porting of wild animals and seeds of wild plants for domestic use and planting
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Temporary villages at opportune locations for economic activities
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Tribes and bands
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| Neolithic
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Polished stone tools, devices useful in subsistence farming and defense – chisel, hoe, plough, yoke, reaping-hook, grain pourer, loom, earthenware (pottery) and weapons
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Neolithic Revolution – domestication of plants and animals used in agriculture and herding, supplementary gathering, hunting, and fishing. Warfare.
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Permanent settlements varying in size from villages to walled cities, public works.
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Tribes and formation of chiefdoms in some Neolithic societies the end of the period
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Polytheism, sometimes presided over by the mother goddess, shamanism
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ලෝකඩ යුගය
(3300 – 1200 BC)
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තඹ යුගය
(Chalcolithic)
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තඹ මෙවලම්, කුඹල් සක
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Civilization, including craft, trade
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Urban centers surrounded by politically attached communities
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City-states*
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Ethnic gods, state religion
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| ලෝකඩ යුගය
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ලෝකඩ මෙවලම්
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යකඩ යුගය
(1200 – 550 BC)
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යකඩ මෙවලම්
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Includes trade and much specialization; often taxes
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Includes towns or even large cities, connected by roads
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Large tribes, kingdoms, empires
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One or more religions sanctioned by the state
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