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Pre-Historical Beginning of Culture in India
comprehensive covering all fields of knowledge, the strong effect of which was to shape the destiny of man kind for millenniums to come.
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Therefore, to differentiate this period from the prior "Pre-Historic" period and the subsequent "Historic" one, the term "Proto-Historic" is now used. "Proto" is a greek word meaning "first". "Proto Historic" period is therefore earlier historic period having no written chronological history, but having definite impact in shaping the history of man-kind. Indus Valley Civilization and various other contemporaneous chalcolithic cultures can be classified as "Proto-Historic."
It follows that the term "Pre-History" signifies that period of the development of man-kind which has left no discernible trace of the development of its culture and civilization and the impact of which is not known. This would be the period of Palaceolithic and Mesolithic and perhaps a part of Neolithic ages covering the whole of stone age, which is believed to have ended some 6000 years
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